WHO WE ARE
We are Yoruba United
Yoruba United, also known as Yoruba United Worldwide, Inc. USA, is a nonprofit organization, with a 501(c)4 classification under the Internal Revenue Code of the IRS. It is a socio-political and economic advocacy organization for all Oodua/Yoruba people, home and abroad, as well as Yoruba land in particular! A people with a population of over one hundred and fifty million dispersed all over the world. Our homeland is located within seven degrees north of the equator. Oodua, Oduduwa, or Yoruba is a collection of kingdoms with a population forcibly merged by an Act of Amalgamation under the British colonial government. As of the 1963 Census, the population of Oodua people was more than 11.5 million heads of households, and their unmarried children. Today that number is more than 150 million people that have been forcibly merged into a union with two other major tribes of peoples with whom it has nothing in common, in terms of language, culture, values, and traditional compatibilities. One of the other two major tribes, is called the Ndigbo (Igbo) people, are also clamoring for their separation from the expired country of Nigeria. The agitation of the Ibo people is a testimony to the fact that Nigeria is a failed State, and as a people, the Yoruba Nation, is not a population of disgruntled people, but of kingdoms that wish to exercise the rights to self-determination for a sovereign State. Our merger with other tribes created the country of Nigeria on January 1, 1914. Ever since the creation of Nigeria, our people have been made to undergo hardships, unfairly dominated, marginalized, and denied freedom. In addition, the Yoruba People need their freedom to live in peace, the liberty to be whatever they so desire to be, and the pursuit of happiness.
