When we are dividing people into black, white, yellow, brown and etc the Yoruba for instance must realize that we have known Europeans five hundred years before meeting the first Igbo, Ibibio and etc. Not to talk of Kenyas, Ethiopians, Cameroonians and etc. The Yoruba culture is more similar to the British, French or German than it is to the Igbo or even the Hausa. Yoruba is spoken like French for instance because of the observance of pronouns of rank and the only similar institution to the Ogboni on Earth is Freemasonry that originated in Britain. The Yoruba need their people together in West Africa like the Germans need their people together in Europe under one authority. We are therefore facing similar problems as human beings or as nations. In today's Yoruba land, the highest employers of labor at single locations are the Chinese, the Indians, Lebanese and etc are also there. A successful Yoruba tech company Proforce is incorporated in partnership with Germans. A large number of ethnic Yoruba people are phenotypically white Latinos and they may outnumber West African Yorubas in population. Those Chinese, Europeans, Indians and etc are more important to Yorubas than any non Nigerian African group and they are as important as the large Nigerian groups like Hausas and Igbos. Of what use then is an African Union without these people?. A regional ECOWAS may be understandable. Therefore the age of classifying people by skin color is over. What you are is the ethnicity you are raised as. Africa after all is not one skin color but several shades. Would you say a white man with inherited clothes from West African Yoruba land passed down from father to son for five hundred years is not a Yoruba man?. Today, there are black people with no other identity other than British and almost half of men like that in the US are actually paternally descended from Britain. Therefore it is no longer rational to divide people by color. You are a person, member of a family and member of an ethnicity, member of a nation and member of the world in that order. Nations and ethnicities should see themselves as brethren regardless of skin color while trying to make themselves and their habitats better and better. Igbos, Hausas etc should not see the Yoruba as a closer relative than Germans, French, Chinese, Italians, Japanese and etc because culturally and in other ways they are not. They are only adjacent to each other. All relationships between categories of individuals from person up should start at the same level. Several nations or ethnicities can be in one federation and it does not mean they are not distinct from each other. Nigeria afterall is not a nation, it is just a federation or a geographical expression with no common language apart from the colonial English. Yoruba are not anymore a Negroid people just like the British or American people are not any more a Caucasoid people and actually all ethnicities are like that to varying degrees. The rule is people that join you in your living space and take up your culture are your people and as a group, do not discriminate against others based on skin colour and etc.