question: Yemoja is a major water deity from a religion that is found primarily in southwestern Nigeria, and the adjoining parts of Benin and Togo, commonly known as what?
answer: Yorubaland
context: Title: Human trafficking in Togo
  Passage: Togo is a source, transit and, to a lesser extent, a destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation.  Trafficking within Togo is more prevalent than transnational trafficking and the majority of victims are children.  Togolese girls are trafficked primarily within the country for domestic servitude, as market vendors, produce porters, and for commercial sexual exploitation.  To a lesser extent, girls are also trafficked to other African countries, primarily Benin, Nigeria, Ghana, and Niger for the same purposes listed above.  Togolese boys are most commonly trafficked transnationally to work in agricultural labor in other African countries, primarily Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Gabon, and Benin, though some boys are also trafficked within the country for market labor.  Beninese and Ghanaian children have also been trafficked to Togo.  There have been reports of Togolese women and girls trafficked to Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, likely for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation.  Togolese women may be trafficked to Europe, primarily to France and Germany, for domestic servitude and sexual exploitation.  In the last year, 19 Togolese girls and young women were trafficked to the United States for forced labor in a hair salon.  The Government of Togo does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so, despite limited resources.  Togo demonstrated solid law enforcement efforts by increasing the number of traffickers convicted.  However, sentences imposed on convicted traffickers were inadequate and protection efforts were diminished over last year.
  Title: Somba people
  Passage: The Somba people, also called Ditamari, are an African ethnic group found primarily in northwestern Benin and northern Togo.  The name is a generic term for the Betammaribe and related peoples, who make up about 8% of Benin’s population.  Their language is the "Ditammari language", also known as Tamberma, and it is a northern branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages.
  Title: Yoruboid languages
  Passage: Yoruboid is a 'megagroup' of 14 related dialect/language clades, composed of the Igala group, of related dialects spoken in central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group, the members of which are spoken in a band across Togo, Ghana, Benin and southwestern Nigeria.  The name "Yoruboid" derives from its most widely spoken member, Yoruba, which has more than 35 million speakers.  Another well-known Yoruboid language is Itsekiri (Nigeria, 600,000–800,000 speakers).  The Yoruboid group is a branch of Defoid, Defoid being a short form of "Ede" the word for Language in most languages within the grouping and - "Foid").  The Defoid group itself is a branch of the Benue–Congo subfamily of the Niger–Congo language family.
  Title: Human trafficking in Nigeria
  Passage: Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children subjected to trafficking in persons including forced labor and forced prostitution.  Trafficked Nigerian women and children are recruited from rural areas within the country’s borders − women and girls for involuntary domestic servitude and sexual exploitation, and boys for forced labor in street vending, domestic servitude, mining, and begging.  Nigerian women and children are taken from Nigeria to other West and Central African countries, primarily Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Chad, Benin, Togo, Niger, Burkina Faso, and the Gambia, for the same purposes.  Children from West African states like Benin, Togo, and Ghana – where Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) rules allow for easy entry – are also forced to work in Nigeria, and some are subjected to hazardous jobs in Nigeria’s granite mines.  Nigerian women and girls are taken to Europe, especially to Italy and Russia, and to the Middle East and North Africa, for forced prostitution.
  Title: Anlo Ewe
  Passage: The Anlo Ewe are a sub-group of the Ewe people of approximately 6 million people, inhabiting southern Togo, southern Benin, southwest Nigeria, and south-eastern parts of the Volta Region of Ghana; meanwhile, a majority of Ewe are located in the entire southern half of Togo and southwest Benin.  They are a patrilineal society governed by a hierarchal, centralized authority.  Their language (self-name "Anlogbe") is a dialect of the Ewe language, itself part of the Gbe language cluster.  The Ewe religion is centered on a supreme god Mawu and several intermediate divinities.
  Title: Yoruba religion
  Passage: The Yoruba religion, comprising the traditional religious concepts and practices of the Yoruba people, is found primarily in southwestern Nigeria and the adjoining parts of Benin, and Togo, commonly known as Yorubaland.  Yoruba religion is ancestral or partially ancestral to the Afro-American religions Santería, Trinidad Orisha, Umbanda, Brujería, Hoodoo, Candomblé, Quimbanda, Orisha, Xangô de Recife, Xangô do Nordeste, Comfa, Espiritismo, Santo Daime, Candomblé, Abakuá, Kumina, Winti, Sanse, Cuban Vodú, Dominican Vudú, Louisiana Voodoo, Haitian Vodou, and Vodun.  Yoruba religious beliefs are part of "itan", the complex cultural concepts which make up the Yoruba society.
  Title: Bariba people
  Passage: The Bariba people, self designation "Baatonu" (plural "Baatombu)," are the principal inhabitants of Borgou Department, Benin, and cofounders of the Borgu kingdom of what is now northeast Benin and west-central Nigeria.  In Nigeria, they are found spread between Western Kwara State and the Borgu section of Niger state.  There are perhaps a million Bariba, 70% of them in Benin, where they are the fourth largest ethnic group in Benin and comprise approximately 1/11 of the population (9.2%).  The Bariba are concentrated primarily in the north-east of the country, especially around the city of Nikki, which is considered the Bariba capital.  They originally migrated from Kwara state Nigeria and were renowned horsemen.  One of their noted festivals is the annual Gani festival which horseriding is very much a part of and is engrained in their culture.
  Title: Ogun State
  Passage: Ogun is a state in southwestern Nigeria.  Created in 1976, it borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo and Osun states to the north, Ondo to the east and the Republic of Benin to the west.  Abeokuta is the capital and largest city in the state.  The state's nickname is "Gateway to Nigeria".  It was created in February 1976 from the former Western State.  The 2006 census recorded a total population of 3,751,140 residents.
  Title: Phla–Pherá languages
  Passage: The Phla–Pherá ("Xwla–Xwela") languages form a possible group of Gbe languages spoken mainly in southeastern and southwestern Benin; some communities are found in southeastern Togo and southwestern Nigeria.  The group, comprising about ten varieties, was introduced by H.B. Capo in his 1988 classification of Gbe languages as one of the five main branches of Gbe.  Additional research carried out by SIL International in the nineties corroborated many of Capo's findings and led to adjustment of some of his more tentative groupings; in particular, Phla–Pherá was divided in an eastern and a western cluster.  Phla–Pherá is one of the smaller Gbe branches in terms of number of speakers.  It is also the most linguistically diverse branch of Gbe, due partly to the existence of several geographically separated communities, but mainly because of considerable influence by several non-Gbe languages in the past.  Some of the Phla–Pherá peoples are thought to be the original inhabitants of the region having intermingled with Gbe immigrants.
  Title: Yemoja
  Passage: Yemoja (Yoruba: "Yemọja" ) is a major water deity from the Yoruba religion.  She is an orisha and the mother of all orishas, having given birth to the 14 Yoruba gods and goddesses.  She is often syncretized with either Our Lady of Regla in the afrocuban diaspora or various other Virgin Mary figures of the Catholic Church, a practice that emerged during the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.  Yemoja is motherly and strongly protective, and cares deeply for all her children, comforting them and cleansing them of sorrow.  She is said to be able to cure infertility in women, and cowrie shells represent her wealth.  She does not easily lose her temper, but when angered she can be quite destructive and violent, as the flood waters of turbulent rivers.
citations: Yemoja Yoruba religion