I remember when I learnt a little about this in school in Nigeria and watched a nollywood movie about this this in my early childhood...thanks you for sharing these stories :D
this is a very popular story in Western Nigeria, the forest people were a group of deserters initially from Ile-Ife, they are still yoruba. For about an entire century Ife was faced with civil wars between two groups battling for power - the Oduduwa group and the Obatala group; Moremi put an end to it for good
@@peteralex2813 obviously you are igbo. There's something I've noticed about igbos of Eastern Nigeria. You guys like to attach yourselves into other people's history but we don't ever hear any history from your land. You guys have lost so much historical information that you can only now resort to looking for yourselves in stories from others.
Since watching your videos I've admired you're work. I've learned more about African history than I ever have in school or currently now in college. Thank you. Please never stop making videos.
I think I have watch almost all your videos!! Thank you so much for these incredible videos, I have been so fascinated about Pre Colonial African History, and have been doing soooo much research. Thank you for these amazing videos and the spark this has ignited!!
Home Team, is there any way that I can ask you to do a video about Queen Nanny of the Maroons from the Ashanti Tribe?She was a fierce warrior who is lauded as the women who wrested Accompong Jamaica from the British. Despite superior fire power, technology, and being heavily outnumbered in troops..She STILL beat the British.
It looks like the Avatar movie based their main character (Zoey Saldana's Avatar) after queen Moremi's looksLol at the turn up part😂Thanks for another insightful video!
MR!!!! PLEASE!!! IMAGINE THAT THE STORY U DESCRIBED I MENTIONED THIS TO SOMEONE AND SPOKE OUT THE SPIRIT AND NEVER KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT!!! I THOUGHT I WAS MAKING IT ALL UP!!!!!!! MY NAME IS MOREME AND I AM IN TEARS FEELING TREMBLES AS U GO ABOUT THIS. I HAVE A SCAR ON MY FACE. I AM STILL BEAUTIFUL THO. ONE OF THE BEST WHERE I COME FROM. MY HUSBAND CHOSE ME AS WELL AFTER HE SCREWED SO MANY WOMAN I KNOW HERE. ISTILL MARRIED HIM... IM AT A LOST FOR MORE WORDS!!
MY NAME IS MOREME IM FROM CARIBBEAN I NEED INFORMATION ON THIS!!! IM SO CAUGHT UP AFTER SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION. LIKE I BEEN LED IN THE SPIRIT TO DO TO THIS
most caribbeans of today were all taken from the western part of Africa during the first slavery era, majority of them were mainly taken from the western part of Nigeria which was also known to be as the "Yòrúbá' People"
Thank you. I Learned so much. My business is my 1st , middle and last MoReMy but someone thought of me when they heard about her and so i had to look her up. I appreciate this knowledge good brotha✊🏾❤
Another great vid my brotha!! I have a request I'm coming atcha cause I see other request. If you haven't please teach on the Mend/Malinke/Mandingo/Bambara people who are from Mali. I know you've one on Sundiata Keita, but that history is soooo deep. Thank you for all you do and you sound great. Shout out to West Africa from a sista in the diaspora!!
+TRUTHTEACHER2007 I think for some pronunciation is difficult or perhaps they don't feel sure/comfortable, like when one tries out using their newly learned language skills with native speakers, but I would also like to encourage +HomeTeam History to try pronouncing African words properly, I've been watching a lot of videos +HomeTeam History and I noticed that you almost always Americanize the pronunciations and I wonder if you are nervous because it's obvious that you are knowledgeable. It would be of great service to the community of those among us who don't know/ may not have ever heard the pronunciations to make an effort to pronounce properly (even if you don't always get it right) please don't feel judged, I support you!
+SmallxMighty i was just about to comment a similar thing. i cringed everytime he mispronounced the Yoruba names. It will be really nice if he learnt the proper pronunciation of these words, at least get it 80% correct
SmallxMighty No. In his defense it's really hard to know how to pronounce words in another language if you only see the written down. You don't know where the stresses and emphasis are, if the vowels are long or short etc. You need to hear them spoken. For instance I read a little Arabic. The problem with Arabic though is it's like short hand, the vowels aren't written, (except for y). So I'm really good with names because I've grown up hearing them, but to read anything beyond that, I'm screwed. Yoruba is also a difficult language because it's like Chinese, the tone you stress on the letters can totally change the meaning. I give him points though for researching nothing that is not part of his personal culture for the sake of educating the general public.
+TRUTHTEACHER2007 While I appreciate your sensitivity, there is nothing to come to the defence of, as I was not being offensive. And to your points, while all that may be true (as I pretty much similarly pointed out at the beginning of my comment) as an educator he will have to step up to the linguistic challenge. Also, given his level of knowledge I doubt that he has never heard the pronunciation of these words. I come from the same immediate ethnic (regionally) background as him and I have heard them plenty, and even if I am an isolated case the internet is such that he can hear and teach himself. So to be frank, I see potential for excellence in +HomeTeam History and there is always room for growth. I ask him to try, not for perfection as things get better with practice. I personally feel it is my duty as a member of my community to encourage my peers in growth and excellence always, and I expect my peers, elders and even junior members of my community to do the same for me. Steel sharpens steel.
What makes you think I was being offensive or judgmental. It just is what it is. That's life. It's not a good or bad thing or something to feel bad about thing, it's just a thing. No biggie.
I think this just became my new favourite channel. Funny thing is I searched for videos on female pharoahs and queens of Africa for YEARS, but your channel never came up.
I watched some of your videos and you are very knowledgeable. I consider myself extremely knowledgeable about African history compared to most but you put me to shame. I think you may like my animated series. It'll be based heavily around Yoruba Mythology and African history as a whole. Here is the first episode: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JSOVIfBC2P0.html
HOME TEAM! YOU DID IT AGAIN! VERY GOOD STORY TELLING! ONE PROBLEM, YOU FORGOT TO GIVE US THE TIME OF QUEEN MOREMI, I WAS GUESSING THIS TOOK PLACE IN THE 1300'S A.D.?
1300A.D. is far too late to be correct. The radio carbon dating for the Ife pavement is 1000 A.D. under Queen Luwoo, the 21st in the Oduduwa dynasty. Moremi was wife of the 6th king of the Oduduwa dynasty. Kings then ruled for so long,from their early 20s to their dying day! All these takes us much further back, the Oduduwa dynasty being calculated to have begun around 450 B.C.
@@joysunday5850 Words can't describe how happy I am to read your very important comment here. I have wondered about these dates for long and I was leaning towards your conclusion. Radiocarbon dating has proven again and again that the dates generally speculated for these figures like Oduduwa, Oranmiyan, Shango, etc. are often very late. For instance, radiocarbon dating is said to put the date of the Oranmiyan Obelisk at Ile-Ife to centuries before the date generally speculated to mark the start of the Oduduwa dynasty. Which means that each of Oduduwa and Oranmiyan actually lived centuries before the dates they are thought to have lived.
+Praise Onaturals ...Ha ha, thanks sis. I've been called Queen for many years. However, we are all Queens (or at least, striving to be one...right?) Peace
SIR MY REAL NAME IS MOREME... IT WAS GIVEN TO ME MYSTERIOUSLY... HAHAHAHAHA AND IMAGINE YOUR EXPLANATION OF THE QUEEN AND NOW MY LIFE TO ITS RELATION!!! OMG!! DID I FALL HERE BY CHANCE????
J&M Nation, sis, do yourself a great favor by encouraging your husband to visit Nigeria. Travel to Osun State, where Ile-ife is still located and get yourself a priest who will divine for you. If you're really connected to this person in the spirit, Ifa will tell you. Good luck
My husband left me... really came and diaturbed me because i was onto some knowledge.. tried to defeat me. Im now divorced and he turned out to be a fraud.. sent but overthrown jus like if i was at war for my life... i will visit on my own i have truly been called to go besides my dreams confirm that i am... i am not belonging to where i am from
Once again another great video. One question about the story though: How exactly did the river goddess help Moremi? Even though I initially expected that the goddess would attempt to screw Moremi over somehow (gods and goddesses love doing that), I expected some kind of miracle to help Moremi accomplish her goal. It seems her help was more along the lines of...luck? Causing the King of the Forest People to fall in love with her? Just generally keeping her safe?
+Imperiused My assumption is two fold. First, Moremi came to Oshun basically asking for protection so that her plan would work and Oshun provided that (she successfully escaped the "Forest people"). Two: Oshun simply saw a great opportunity to have some fresh human sacrifice and did nothing for Moremi as she knew her plan would work because the Forest people were just men. In my opinion; On the surface level one can say Moremi didnt have to promise anything at all... but she was so desperate to save her people from what she deemed to be spirits sent from the Orisha. So from her perspective going to an Orisha was the only way rid them of these strange "Spirit people/Forest people".
+HomeTeam History Interesting thoughts. I kind of like the second situation best. Makes Moremi out to be even a greater hero, and that the goddess just took advantage of her virtue. Thanks!
Imperiused in real life i am queen moremi they do this to me or tried . To my honor and for my virtue i will bring my faith to its reward!! Its time.. no more 4 no more
Some important points is often omitted in the Moremi story which are 1)the rivers to cross to get to Ilu-Ugbo, the masquerades country. 2) That Orisha is her chief Orisha, the way we pray to the Almighty when we encounter a challenge that seems greater than us. And 3)She didn't go to ask for help as such, rather she went to vow that if she succeeded in her plan she would offer her only child! Meaning she was launching out on total faith in that Orisha who would orchestrate her success, the Orishas thus deserve a gift which she promised on return. Like Jephtah did (Judges 11:30-36). If these 3 points were included in the narration, the Orisha's role would not be questioned.
Could you do a video on the ibo tribe? And (unrelated topic) how Hausa Yoruba and I think the ibo tribe as well were navigating the world and located the Americas long before Colombus. I learned there is archaeological evidence that dates back to at least 10,000 years ago.
+Kj Froster The concept of Orisha is a religion itself...Some of the Yoruba gods are actually still venerated and worshiped in Nigeria and the Caribbean today.
+Kj Froster Heru is from East African origin. Specifically the Ausarian theology of Kemet. There are many many African Traditional religions. This video is on a story from the Ifa tradition.
This is where the story bases of Jesus comes from. Very interesting. I know where my Name comes from....still trying to understand the God's, who I am name after position, Role and Power.🤔
Yorubas dont have a concept of making up fiction around their progenitors or cultural history. That is a white mans way. Like Sango, the god of thunder, foreigners may see him as a myth, but he is as real as Mike Tyson and his bloodline still exist today. He was also the 4th Alaafin of Oyo that ruled an empire as big as Britain, France, Spain and Germany put together. Unlike Thor, who never existed was made up to make kids feel good and have a heroic figure to look up to. Oral tradition may make stories look bogus and extraordinary, but that is what makes it preservated. For instance, Oduduwa was reputed to have come from heaven on a rope, but in reality, it was referring to his migration from somewhere in the north, whixh Yorubas calls #Iluoke or #Upcountry.
Yorubas dont have a concept of making up fiction around their progenitors or cultural history. That is a white mans way. Like Sango, the god of thunder, foreigners may see him as a myth, but he is as real as Mike Tyson and his bloodline still exist today. He was also the 4th Alaafin of Oyo that ruled an empire as big as Britain, France, Spain and Germany put together. Unlike Thor, who never existed was made up to make kids feel good and have a heroic figure to look up to. Oral tradition may make stories look bogus and extraordinary, but that is what makes it preservated. For instance, Oduduwa was reputed to have come from heaven on a rope, but in reality, it was referring to his migration from somewhere in the north, whixh Yorubas calls #Iluoke or #Upcountry.
Why pronounce their name like that. It hurts my ears to hear you do that, I couldn’t even go on watching. Maybe because am an original YORUBA girl from ILE IFE. 😡 Weldone tho.
Ella Regal "uncomfortable" with his pronunciation!? Make your own video then. Many Yorubas don't even understand Yoruba language anymore- talk less of speaking it. Please give this brother/video its due kudos.
Ignorance kills progress. Learn to say the names correctly. It is disrespectful to mispronounce anyone's name. Yoruba names have a meaning that invoke action.
He is not a native speaker. He gives respect by giving the information. How about you create a video on american folk lore and lets see how well you promounce them and then we will criticize your pronunciation. Be respectful of this brotha for giving information about African its not done often.
Amona Maria Do you even know what you are talking about? Well I'm so sorry what slavery did and had to affect you, but imagine if your ancestors had been enslaved by Chinese, you'd be saying Buddha will get mad at us for relieving our history. Shame on you. I challenge you to come down to Ile-ife on a solo move and afterwards, lest see if you'd still spew these same trash coming out of your mind... In case you don't know, Ile-ife was the birth olacebif creations (Omo Adamo), meaning he who we created out of the mud. Ask any Yoruba man, he'd corroborate what I wrote here.
@ Home Team History...You're doing a dis-service to your American audience..... Your commentary and pronounciation is diabolica... Your team history must employ someone fluent in Yoruba language...Sadly, your team scored one out of ten...for effort ...Why Black Yankees are lazy to learn the cultural language of their ancestors.I dont want to struggle to understand your commentary.
Why put down home team simply because he cannot pronounce the Yoruba dialects properly? After all, he probably has never left America, yet he has immersed himself in the unique history of his ancestors and made it known to the world. Whereas, you probably being African have done nothing but to criticize the guys pronunciation deficits. How do you think a white guy will feel when you use an African accent to pronounce their own language. Get a skill of your own and show it to the world and stop beefing other peoples effort. Alaraka
You are unnecessarily harsh in your comments to a man who uplifts a history that most Westerners malign. Since you are so critical I hope your English is perfect. We need to support those of us who are working to uplifting us. Shame on you.
