did the yoruba's come from egypt?

Question

benin and nigeria are yoruba peoples and i read somewhere in the internet or an encyclopedia that the yoruba's come from egypt because of thier carving's of stones looked like ancient egyptian carving, it looks just like it!!! so did they come from egypt?

Answer 1

It's unlikely.

It has become a common belief amongst Afro-centric history that Egypt served as the starting point for all African cultures and civilizations.

There's just no archaeology evidence to support this however (things "looking like" other things isn't evidence). Moreover (and ironically) this theory assumes that Africans needed some sort of outside influence to develop "civilization" - this idea is rooted in old and racist Eurocentric ideas that (1) Ancient Egyptians were "white" (anthropologically, yes, but not in the way popularly meant) and (2) white people had to bring "civilization" to the backwards Black people of sub-saharan Africa. In adopting this idea, Afrocentrics merely made Ancient Egyptians "black" but kept the same flawed logic.

Yoruba civilization didn't even come to rise for thousands of years after Ancient Egypt collapsed, so this idea just doesn't make sense temporally either.

There is no doubt that Ancient Egypt was a major influence on Meroe and Nubia, and probably on Aksum as well, but larger claims just don't have any real evidence backing them up. It is, of course, POSSIBLE, but not proven and frankly, not likely.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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