The Conception of Law in Yoruba Land

By S.C. Spinoza, PhD | 25 Jan 2009

If you have the stomach for barbarity, then watch the following video from Yoruba Land. The video summarizes the conception of law and order in Yoruba culture. If you think that President G. W. Bush’s Administration destroyed the honor and ideals of America in the eyes of the world because of torture, murder, lawlessness, and illegal wars, then visit Nigeria to understand the effects of Yoruba Administration in Nigeria. If you believe that black is beautiful and blacks are not the cause of the prevailing backwardness in all African nations, then study the activities of Olusegun Obasanjo and Andrew Young in Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.  Both men are black, and I believe they both have their roots in the Yoruba culture because they both helped to create the conditions that led to the contents of the video.

To Olusegun Obasanjo and Andrew Young, the law has nothing to do with the relations between and among individuals as those relations affect social and economic order. To the Yoruba mind, the law has nothing to do with rights and order, and does not affect the rights and duties of every citizen and many non-citizens.

To the Yoruba culture, the law is non-prohibitory because all acts can be committed so long as they lead to vainglorious pursuit of other people’s properties and resources.

To the Yoruba culture, all acts and behaviors are allowed and permitted because the society has no need to mandate or prohibit behaviors and actions that stand in the way of Yoruba congenital dependency syndrome. In other words, all acts and behaviors are allowed so long as they satisfy the Yoruba man’s need to plunder, to deceive, to steal, and to murder as the only means of getting wealth and comfort.

In all other societies, where commerce, science, and technology are considered as important aspects of social order and human development, the law is indispensable. If you doubt this, consider the condition of the United States after Bush and Cheney. Consider what lawlessness and lack of regulations have done to the United States.

If the law is not considered as a continuously changing process of developing a workable set of rules that balance the individual and group rights in a dynamic social arrangement, then the result will be what you see on the video. The result is what you saw done to America by Bush and Cheney. And if you believe that Bush and Cheney were bad for America, think about multiplying the actions and behaviors of Bush and Cheney 1000 folds; if you do, you will understand what the Yoruba culture did to Nigeria under Olusegun Obasanjo and Andrew Young.

To the Yoruba mind, the law has nothing to do with either the courts or the state because the decisions of the courts and the statements of the laws are mutually exclusive and independent, and must never predict or prescribe or command what is right or wrong in the daily life of an average Yoruba person.

 

Reader Comments

Post # 1 | By  Guest | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:21 PM
The Yoruba culture is truly evil! They need to be wiped out of Nigeria, period.
Post # 2 | By  Oscar | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:32 PM
There is nothing new here. The Yoruba have been like this since they fell from the sky, and they will never change. The world leaves Nigeria behind because of the backwardness in that part of Africa. Until all Yoruba people die, Nigeria will never make any progress.
Post # 3 | By  Guest | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:35 PM
If you listen to a Yoruba man as he runs his mouth, you will think that they are the smartest people on planet earth. In reality, they are the most backward animals, more backward than the beasts in the jungle.
Post # 4 | By  Oscar | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:36 PM
I agree with the author that Obasanjo created the conditions for this kind of madness.
Post # 5 | By  Guest | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:37 PM
Yorubas are children. They are forever condemned to a life of insanity.
Post # 6 | By  Oscar | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:39 PM
As Obama said in his inaugral speech, children do childish things. The Yoruba man has a lot of growing up to do. They need help in introducing order and civilization into their culture.
Post # 7 | By  Guest | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:46 PM
Imagine where an African American was treated like this by a white man in America. People would cry racism and white supremacy. The Yoruba man in USA has the same mentality as the criminals and animals in Odua land.
Post # 8 | By  Oscar | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:48 PM
One Yoruba animal has been running around the Intenet with his Igbo this, Igbo that. The more he lies about the Igbos, the more we get concrete eveidence about his Yoruba mind and what makes him think as he does - he is like the criminals and animals in the video.
Post # 9 | By  Guest | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:50 PM
Awolowo was like the animals in the video. Soyinka and Oduduwa are no better either. A good Yoruba is a dead Yoruba period.
Post # 10 | By  Oscar | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:53 PM
When a Yoruba man opens his stinky mouth to criticise anything, read between the lines because he is talking about the contradictions and immoralities in his Yoruba backward culture. Ekiti in Yoruba land is supposedly the home to the greatest number of PhD holders per square inch of land. But the place is the most backward in Nigeria with the most assasinations and murders in the entire world. This tells you that even when educated, the Yoruba man is as useless as the animals you see in the video.
Post # 11 | By  Guest | 25 Jan 2009 @ 5:58 PM
Obsanjo is also an educated man - he is educated in backwardness. Education means nothing. President GW Bush attended the same Harvard as Obama. Look at what he has done to America. Intelligence and common sense are inborn, not gained by education. The Yoruba man is congenitally unintelligent. He may speak big grammar and write like Soyinka. Most of them have the mental and behavioral tendencies of GW Bush. This is why they have ruined Nigeria as Bush ruined America.
Post # 12 | By  Mohammad | 28 Jan 2009 @ 8:14 AM
Oh my God? This is sick. This is inhumane. This is Muslim Sharia at its worst. Well, again, we are not the only barbarians in Nigeria as most Yoruba people call us in their villages.
Post # 13 | By  Guest | 28 Jan 2009 @ 8:44 AM
Those people are really barbaric. How can this kind of thing happen in 2009???????? I hope the Yorubas do not live here in USA.
Post # 14 | By  Edwin | 28 Jan 2009 @ 9:37 AM
Aaaa, that is unbelievable. Are the Yoruba people this backward in their mindset and culture??????????????
Post # 15 | By  Toyola | 31 Jan 2009 @ 8:31 PM
The video is timely - the world needs to see what we have been saying. Send a copy to the US Whitehouse.