Yoruba people are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. Yoruba is a language culture and a religion all in one. The Yoruba constitute around 30 million individuals throughout West Africa and are found predominantly in Nigeria with approximately 21 percent of its total population. The Yoruba Kingdom of Ife experienced a golden age between 1100 AD and 1700 AD, it literally break my heart to say the allot of the tradition and the culture of the Yoruba people is been lost every day because more and more people are embracing the European culture.
This is one of many brass Terracotta sculptures that were found in 1910, buried in a palm grove at Wunmonije Compound, Ife, Nigeria. Estimated date: late 14th-early16th century. Western expert have argue and speculated how such a fascinating work of art could have been created by indigenous people, they’ve even disputed that the artefact was a fake and that it was too sophisticated to have been created by African hands.
The land of Ife is within Yoruba land and was once a thriving city as a Yoruba man it makes me proud to see such discovery being exhibited at the British Museum for the whole country to see. This work of art is a modern physical manifestation of my people’s ancient art creative skill.
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