Yorubaland
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The result is a vision of Yorubaland life as a state of harmonic tension, disciplined joy.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022
From the 19th century onward, the part of present-day Nigeria that falls into the region called Yorubaland, was wracked by territorial conflict, first under Islamic dominion, then British control.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022
It shows a crowd in what is now Nigeria, but what was then Yorubaland under British colonial influence.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2019
There were groves of wild figs, their dark fruit luscious and astringent, and plump coconuts, their tender core as rich as any in Yorubaland.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
But more magnificent than the stone monument is the proof that at some remote era glass was made and molded in Yorubaland and that the people here were brilliant in the production of terra-cotta images.
From The Negro by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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