The Yoruba, predominantly of southwest Nigeria, comes with a long history of deep cultural consciousness and identity defined by the omoluabi essence – a sense of, commitment to, and pride in pristine and honorable conduct, individually and corporately. This paper interrogates the different, yet intricately linked perspectives articulated in Encyclopedia of the Yoruba on the cosmology, culture, and sociology of the Yoruba; the impact of modernity on its being; and the basis of the resilience of much of its wider cultural forms in different spatial and temporal contexts. It notes that the basic outline of the Yoruba culture predates its contact with the West, and is indeed comparable to the best of the latter in significant respects. A more autochthonous existence for the Yoruba, predicated upon this uniquely profound and composite cultural essence, within the Nigerian federation, has limitless possibilities for social cohesion and advancement of the development agenda.

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约鲁巴岛（Yoruba）主要位于尼日利亚西南部，具有悠久的文化意识和认同感，这​​种情感和情感由omoluabi本质定义-个人，公司对原始和光荣的行为的感觉，承诺和自豪。本文探讨了《约鲁巴语百科全书》中关于约鲁巴语的宇宙学，文化和社会学的不同但错综复杂的观点。现代性对其存在的影响；以及在不同的时空背景下其众多文化形式的复原力的基础。它指出，约鲁巴文化的基本轮廓要早于其与西方的接触，并且在很多方面确实与后者的最佳水平相当。约鲁巴人的生活更加本土化，它基于这种独特而深刻的综合文化本质，