Yoruba's heritage, a wonderful one that has spread across the whole world - 1

The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. They are united geographically, historically, by religion and most importantly by language. Before the the late 1500's - before African slavery, the Yoruba people inhabited an area which stretched, along the coast of West Africa, and down to Angola. During the period of African Slavery, from the late 1500's to the late 1800's, millions of Yoruba people were forcibly taken out of Africa, dwindling their population and land mass. After Slavery, the European powers cut up the continent of Africa into different pieces and imposed new countries and languages in Africa.

Now talking about the religious belief of the Yorubas from time past.
The Yoruba religion, comprising the traditional religious concepts and practices of the Yoruba people, is found primarily in southwestern Nigeria and the adjoining parts of Benin, and Togo, commonly known as Yorubaland. Yoruba religion is ancestral to the Afro-American religions Santería , Trinidad Orisha, Palo , Umbanda, Brujería, Hoodoo, Candomblé, Quimbanda , Orisha, Xangô de Recife, Xangô do Nordeste, Comfa, Espiritismo, Santo Daime, Obeah, Candomblé, Abakuá, Kumina , Winti , Sanse, Cuban Vodú, Dominican Vudú, Louisiana Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, and Vodun.

NB: The Yoruba religion is ancestral to this aforementioned religion because of the widespread of the Yoruba people as a result of slave trade into the Americas.

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