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Meaning
Noun
●
In Ethnonyms:
A
member
of an
ethnic group
or
tribe
living
mainly
in
southwest
Nigeria,
southern
Benin, and
eastern
Togo and, as well
as in
communities
elsewhere in West Africa, Brazil and Cuba.
Name
●
A sub-Saharan language. It
belongs
to the Benue-Congo
branch
of the Niger-Congo
language family
, and has
nearly
40
million
speakers
in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone, as well as
communities
in Brazil and Cuba.
●
An African
traditional
religion
which
spawned
various
offshoots
in
th
e Americas in
th
e 15th to 19th
centuries
. These include
santería
and Lucumí. See Yoruba
religion
.
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