The history of Yoruba started from Ile-Ife, there are two versions of the origin of the Yorubas which was mentioned in Clapperton's extract from Bello's history and popularized by reverend Samuel Johnson in his history of the Yorubas. The first version says that the Yoruba originally came from north eastern area of Africa (variously supposed to be Egypt, Yemen, ancient Moreo and Arabia.) After a long journey that took decades if not centuries, this group left their colonies to reside in Ife with their leader Oduduwa who later established a flourishing kingdom and sent his children and grandchildren to form various kingdom and there were seven - sixteen kingdom as at numbers at the end of the 18th century those who claim direct descent from Oduduwa was fourteen (14) prosperous kingdoms in the year 1930 Oni Olubuse named 21 kingdoms which has it centre in ife where they derive their crowns, the Oni Aderemi Adesoji mention 26 The second version which is generally known among t