yorubaland

Updated: July 16, 2025

But more magnificent than the stone monument is the proof that at some remote era glass was made and molded in Yorubaland and that the people here were brilliant in the production of terra-cotta images. The great mass of potsherds, lumps of glass, heaps of slag, etc., "proves, at all events, that the glass industry flourished in this locality in ages past.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Negro