We Are Not Known as Ewe or Yoruba Pt Four

HOW THE NAME ERVERH TOOK ON NEW MEANINGS CONTD.

 

In the last discussions on black history on the actual identity of many black people around the globe we looked at the truth that the identitys of some African men and women aren’t their real identitys but are identities given to the folks by Europeans as recently as the nineteenth century. The two names we saw was as tampered with Yoruba and Ewe. In that article, I talked about as recently as the 1840′s there was no place or people referred to as Yoruba or Ewe.

 

In the last write-up I pointed out that, If you visit West Africa, and ask of the Erverh people from non-Erverh men and women the chances are high that most people won’t recognize whom you’re asking about. It is because the neighbours of the Erverh don’t know them by other names.

 

Because of the difficulties associated with pronouncing the name Erverh, many of their neigbours who are non-Erverh have come up with their own means of identifying them.

 

The following is the continuation of the story is how the title Ewe and Yoruba came into being.

 

A hundred and seventy years ago the title Yoruba became the name of the people east of Dahomey. Since then, that has been the standard identity for the people in Nigeria. The Yoruba folks aren’t even mindful they are Erverh, or they was once known as as such. The only hint in their ties with the Erverh is how heavily the history of the Yoruba intertwines with that of men and women of Dahomey, who are Erverh.

 

Likewise, in Ghana, the Ga-Adangbe has all but forgotten their Erverh roots. The one trace in their ties with the Erverh is their oral history, which puts them at Ille Ife, which was the heart of the Erverh Empire of Old Oyo.

Just as the folks in Nigeria respond to the name Yoruba, which as you will quickly see is not their actual name. Likewise, in Ghana and Togo despite the fact that the name Ewe isn’t their identity. The men and women answer to it as if it is.

This is the end of this essay. I hope you enjoyed it. In the subsequent write-ups,  I will continue and show how the titles Ewe and Yoruba came about as well as describe the baffling behaviour of the people in the way they respond to these recent titles as if they are their real identity. Until then, God be with you all. See you in the next discourse.

Please be reminded, the entire data for this essay or essays is taken directly from the sample pages of the book “The Call to the Hebrews.” For those of you who cannot wait to read the next write-up, log onto my black history books website online http://mawuvi.com/sample-pages and you can proceed the place I have left off.

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