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March 27, 2017

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USE OF NUMBERS, CALCULATIONS AND DATES IN YORUBA.

F or years, even before the arrival of Europeans, Yoruba had created a numerical system used for daily economic transactions, events marking, measurements, time-keeping, and record purposes. It is a time tested, error proof numerical system. The numeral on the face value looks simple, but a critical examination of it, shows its complexity. It is based on vigesimal (vice-nary), which uses both addition and subtraction to express numbers after. Yoruba numeral has both Ordinal and Cardinal, which makes arithmetic of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division possible. The numeral made timing (when no mechanical watch) and measurements (when there were no complex calibrated gauges) possible, above all, it made documentation and record-keeping of events in the times past plausible. The cardinal numbers in Yoruba numeral are the regular numbers use i...

Omi ayo meta si odo (3-0) ni egbe agbaboolu Arsenal na egbe agbaboolu Bate

Idije ifesewonse to waye laarin egbe agbaboolu Arsenal ati awon akegbe won lati egbe agbaboolu Bate lo pari si omi ayo meta si odo (3-0) nigbati egbe agbaboolu Arsenal gbe igba oroke. Agbaboolu Zahkar Volkov lo koko gba omi ayo kan wole fun Arsenal, ti Shkordran Mustafi si gba omi ayo keji wole, ki Sokratis Papastathopoulos si fi oba le. Aseyori yi lo ti sun egbe agbaboolu Arsenal soke si ninu idije UEFA Europa Leauge.

History Of Yoruba (The Talking Drum)

The Talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa , whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow the player to modulate the pitch of the drum by squeezing the cords between their arm and body. A skilled player is able to play whole phrases. Most talking drums sound like a human humming depending on the way you play. Similar hourglass-shaped drums are found in Asia , but they are not used to mimic speech, although the idakka is used to mimic vocal music Hourglass-shaped talking drums are some of the oldest instruments used by West African griots [2] and their history can be traced back to the Yoruba people , the Ghana Empire [3] and the Hausa people . The Yoruba people of south western Nigeria and Benin and the Dagomba of northern Ghana ) have developed a highly sophisticated genre of griot music centering on the talking drum . [ citation needed ] ...

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