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6153, RE: because in Nigeria,
Posted by YayAreaSoul, Tue Feb-18-03 06:13 PM
>it's an ethnic group and a language.
>
>if you're Yoruba, you're Yoruba, just like if you're black,
>you're black or if you're Chinee, you're Chinese. so there
>are Yoruba Christians, Yoruba Muslims and Yoruba ancestral
>worshippers and Yoruba atheists.
>
>it's only in the Diaspora that the particular forms of
>ancestor worship traditionally practiced by the Yoruba are
>called "Yoruba religion," but that term makes little sense
>in Nigeria.

Agree.
I'm Igbo and not Yoruba but I would have to agree. Yoruba or whatever tribe, is not interchangable with religion. It doesn't make you any less Yoruba or Igbo or whatever if you practice Christinaity or Islam or (insert religion here).