Yorubaland
[ yawr-uh-buh-land, yohr- ]
/ ˈyɔr ə bəˌlænd, ˈyoʊr- /
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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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How to use Yorubaland in a sentence
Labour might be brought from Yorubaland close by, and a Yoruba colony has been experimentally started.
Frobenius goes so far as to say that the government in the Yorubaland was fashioned after a republic.
An order in council issued in 1899 extended the protectorate over Yorubaland.