"Yoruba religion"

The piece of paper we read talks about the “yoruba religion” in fact how it was born and how it was spread. Stephan Palmié tells us that to understand better what the “Yoruba religion” is actually we have to go back to the history of slavery when Africans were taken to South America. At that time, for slaves not to forget where they were coming from, they used to be named according to the place they left (by force). Consequently, the Yoruba coming from Nigeria received the name lugumi as recognition. Then along the time, slaves were not only receiving this title because of their origin but somehow people could become “lugumi” after a ritual ceremony. They started becoming more and more numerous in South America. However they needed to play an instrument during their ceremonies but the government at that time had forbidden them to do so. However, they finally obtained back the right to use it later and continued. More people were converting even whites and mulattos. And it also spread to the United States of America and in Nigeria. Nevertheless, Stephan Palmié emphasize that this is the result of many people from Nigeria who were looking for their own identity.