The Yoruba Diaspora in Latin-America: Concept, Keywords and Limitations The present research takes as its point of departure the concept of a mundialized Yoruba identity observable in the Americas. In his doctoral research which concentrated mainly on the Yoruba Diaspora in Brazil, Dr. Félix Ayoh'OMIDIRE referred to this identity as the concept of YoruBaianidade. This concept was defined as the spirit of ethnic, ideological, political, symbolic, cultural and religious affiliation of contemporary Latin-American subjects to what Matory (1994) called the Yoruba Atlantic Complex, a world in which predominates the worldview as well as the philosophy of life of the Yorubas. The Yorubas themselves are a people of African descent who originated in the Gulf of Benin in West-Africa, from where they have spread to the different diasporas of the Afro-Atlantic world, where they have constituted, since the 19th Century, the most significant component in the construction of cultural, social and religious identities of diverse Afro-Latin-American societies such as Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, among others.
Yoruba
Diaspora
Latin-America
Félix Ayoh'OMIDIRE
Werkstatt der Kulturen
Africa
Afro-Atlantic
Afro-Latin-American
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