Yorubaland
[ yawr-uh-buh-land, yohr- ]
/ ˈyɔr ə bəˌlænd, ˈyoʊr- /
noun
a former kingdom in W Africa, in the E part of the Slave Coast: now a region in SW Nigeria.
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Example sentences from the Web for Yorubaland
Labour might be brought from Yorubaland close by, and a Yoruba colony has been experimentally started.
An order in council issued in 1899 extended the protectorate over Yorubaland.
Frobenius goes so far as to say that the government in the Yorubaland was fashioned after a republic.