>i'm checking out a premier text on yoruba religion and this
>is the first question popping into my head as i read the
>intro...
>
>the text: Olodumare, God in Yoruba belief, by E. Bolaji
>Idowu
>
>himself raised raised in Ikorodu, Nigeria in the early
>nineteen hundreds came from a family with strong lineage
>ties to the Afrikan diety Ogun...later became a Methodist
>Minister and played a key role in shaping the concept of
>(get this) "Indigenous African Christianity".
>
>and this is supposedly THE book on Yoruba
>religion...*scratches head*
>
>being that in 1955 the Yoruba speaking part of Nigeria was
>attacked by Muslim and Christian converts in an
>"anti-witchcraft" craze (called Antinga) in which Yoruba
>priests and priestesses were killed and shrines destroyed,
>WHY do there exist Nigerian/Yoruba Christians. This confuses
>me...and i'm wondering how the author could call himself
>Yoruba and profess to still BE Yoruba at the core while
>being a Methodist minister.
>
>this is a serious question, and i'm looking for well thought
>out sensible, non-emotionally fueled answers. thanks ini
>advance.
>
>*disclaimer: if you're not familiar with yoruba and intend
>to simply search keywords in efforts to "answer", cease now,
>for your reply will probably not witstand the followup
>questions. if you're an American person, don't answer, i'm
>too tired to even listen to yall anymore. and if you're
>European/white, then just close this window or just click
>outta this post, cuz well...you don't matter.*
>
>for those left able to answer, "AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE",
>:) stop playing Warcraft and answer the query!

Maybe the yoruba's actually picked up their bibles and read it and realised that the people who killed their people in the name of "christianity" where acting on their own and that it had absolutely nothing to do with God's will. To understand why some yoruba people embrace christianity, you have to understand christianity.