Yorubaland

[ yawr-uh-buh-land, yohr- ]

noun

1. a former kingdom in W Africa, in the E part of the Slave Coast: now a region in SW Nigeria.

Example Sentences

Labour might be brought from Yorubaland close by, and a Yoruba colony has been experimentally started.

From Project Gutenberg

Frobenius goes so far as to say that the government in the Yorubaland was fashioned after a republic.

From Project Gutenberg

An order in council issued in 1899 extended the protectorate over Yorubaland.

From Project Gutenberg