The Yoruba sovereignty

Yoruba sovereignty makes the Oba/Baale the supreme legal authority, but the system of governance is built on certain fundamental principles. The first principle is fairness. A system of turn-by-turn or rotation is used to select the Oba/Baale from a fixed pool of households (‘ruling’ houses) that are of equal status. The second principle is grassroots. Individuals (Chiefs) selected by clans, households, guilds, professions etc, to represent them, are constituted into a Council (Oyomesi). The Council is the policy making body that links the people to the Oba/Baale and enables an uninterrupted flow of information in both directions. The third principle is autonomy. The Yoruba Empire was a confederacy with a very weak centre and autonomous ‘city states’ (Ilu) that have absolute control of their borders, laws and money. The ‘city states’, which were of different sizes, numbered in their hundreds.
 
Despite over 100 years of being governed by others – colonialists, ‘elected’ dictators and military dictators – and despite the constitution being in unwritten form, the Yoruba have stuck stubbornly to their sovereignty. Allegiance to it remains unshakable for many even in the 21st century. Indeed, the Yoruba have never sought to jettison or modify it in any shape of form. The Yoruba want their own country, not because they hate others but because they want to reclaim the sovereignty that was taken from them in 1914. Support the Yoruba: sign, spread, donate, share, retweet http://chng.it/QJp8yJ6hPs Target: 100,000 signatures by the end of February 2021. Signatures cost nothing! And you don’t even have to be Yoruba to sign!