‘Time for Yorubas to come together is now’

YORUBA sons and daughters across the world have been called upon to come together as one in a bid to re-discover their true identity as a people.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Yoruba Indigenes Foundation Worldwide, Dr Olumide Philip Aderibole, made the call while giving details of this year’s Yoruba Indigenes’ World Day, Austria 2021, in a statement he personally signed, a copy of which was made available to the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday.

Aderibole, noted that: “According to research, it has been established that there are three major ethnicities and cultures championing the course of development and change in Africa. They are: the Swahili, Hausa, and Yoruba.

He further stated that: “It is pertinent to say that this year’s Yoruba Indigenes’ World Day has been scheduled to hold in Vienna, Austria, between October 30 and 31 2021 and would be hosted by Yoruba Indegenes’Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation with a special consultative status with the United Nations/ECOSOC and UNESCO.

“The theme for this year’s World Day is ‘Cultures Within Culture: Preserving Our Culture and Heritage In Unity’. However, this year’s Yoruba Indigenes’ World Day will not just be like the other cultural days which have been hosted by the Yoruba Indigenes Foundation as it shall include the inauguration of some of the organisation’s executives in the diaspora which shall be witnessed by some key members of the United Nations/ECOSOC and UNESCO.

“With the state of cultural and ethnicity challenges we have faced so far as a people, it is pertinent to say that it is right for all Yoruba sons and daughters all over the world to come together as one and put our cultural, tribal, religious and social differences aside and rediscover who we truly are as a people.”

Aderibole, also hinted that a magnanimous attendance of the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja 1) and other prominent Yoruba sons and daughters from Nigeria, South Africa, Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.

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