The Great Benin Empire: My Yoruba brothers argued that Oduduwa was a Yoruba king, that he founded the Yoruba race. Wow, this is another type of arguments that often motivate us to put pen on paper, this is the kind of arguments that isn't logical nor add up according to our history.

The Great Benin Empire:

My Yoruba brothers argued that Oduduwa was a Yoruba king, that he founded the Yoruba race. Wow, this is another type of arguments that often motivate us to put pen on paper, this is the kind of arguments that isn't logical nor add up according to our history. 

No 1. Oduduwa was an Edo name called Izoduwa, Uko, Ogiso (Ogiso advisory) that found Uhe before the Yoruba started settling there, this was during the era of Igodomigodo and the Benins were known as Edo people, the kingdom was known as Edo Kingdom. 

No 2. They said that Oduduwa was a king that founded Ile-Ife and founded the Yoruba race.

How can a single person found a race, is this logical or practical?

It is the people that nominate their king, give him or her authority. A race or tribe or ethnic must exist first before a king can be a leader. 

Uhe was founded by the Edo people from Igodomigodo, the first kingship was established in Ile-Ife by a Prince from Igodomigodo and his name was Ekaladeran, the son of Owodo the last king of Igodomigodo. 

This was around 11AD.

Before Ekaladeran there wasn't any kind of kingship in the whole of Yoruba land, the Yoruba were not practising any kind of kingship. 

If there is any Yoruba historian with alternative information I will be ready to share it and debate it. If there is any of my Yoruba brothers and sisters with a list of kings in Yoruba land before Ekaladeran establishment in Uhe which he renamed as Ile-Ife I will be available for a debate.