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UK Company Trademarks Tribal Name ‘Yoruba’, Nigerians Are Pissed

UK Company Trademarks Tribal Name ‘Yoruba’, Nigerians Are Pissed

Nigerians have taken to Twitter to criticize a British clothing retailer for trademarking their tribal word ‘Yoruba. Timbuktu Global is a company based in northwest England. In 2015, it filed papers to trademark ‘’Yoruba’’ with the UK’s Intellectual Property Office. This issue, however, only came into the limelight on Sunday. Gbemisola Isimi, the owner of a cultural organization in London, ...

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