The architecture of the ancient Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria was a communal endeavor and the house was a statement of ideological, economic and social position in the larger urban context. Below is a list of 25 elements of traditional Yoruba architecture, as I cannot detail all about the Yoruba people in this documentation due to how lengthy I would need to write, the brief bio of the Yoruba people samples the Ijebu kingdom. Read also: - The Most Interesting Facts I Learnt Researching Yoruba Architecture - 5 Proposed Standard Elements of Yoruba architecture: Inspiring a Modern Language! - About the Author
Like someone observed on your article on Yoruba Architecture, this is really a very poor work; and I am being very polite. This is better presented as a flashy magazine article to amuse one while they wait to see the dentist. How do I know? Because the works (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) use irrelevant references and appropriate pictures and diagrams that are not current and not acknowledged. Take the Igbo Culture and Lifestyle section; the layout of the house is first of all NOT Igbo but Hausa and it is a theoretical proposition and it was originally in a PhD dissertation from 1981; but the layout is from my 1997 dissertation. How unfortunate!!!
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