{"id":188039,"date":"2025-11-24T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adebayor-reaffirms-yoruba-heritage-in-viral-video"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:39:36","slug":"adebayor-reaffirms-yoruba-heritage-in-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/adebayor-reaffirms-yoruba-heritage-in-viral-video","title":{"rendered":"Adebayor reaffirms Yoruba heritage in viral video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor has reaffirmed his Yoruba heritage. Adebayor made the affirmation in a video that has gone viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>During his active years, the Togolese forward played for the two north London top clubs, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, becoming the first African to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Adebayor also featured for Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 104 goals and made 35 assists in 255 games for Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in fluent Yoruba in a video shared on X by BBC Sport journalist Oluwashina Okeleji, Adebayor said, \u201cOluwalosheyi Emmanuel Adebayor, that\u2019s me, the son of the King.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know who I am and where I am from. I can\u2019t deny my origin. I am Yoruba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adebayor was born to Adeyi Adebayor and Alice Adekanye in Lome\u0301 and went on to play for the Togolese national team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor has reaffirmed his Yoruba heritage. Adebayor made the affirmation in a video that has gone viral on social media. During his active years, the Togolese forward played for the two north London top clubs, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, becoming the first African to do so. Adebayor also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":188037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-188039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adebayor reaffirms Yoruba heritage in viral video - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor has reaffirmed his Yoruba heritage. 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