In a world where mother tongues are rapidly fading, UK-based Nigerian Modupe Olagunju has found it imperative to unveil Àṣàlẹwà, a centre for Yoruba distance learning to bridge the gap. In this ...

“Ikùn,” I repeat, pointing to the illustration of a brown stomach under a turquoise shirt on the page before us. My daughter mimics the picture by raising her top and revealing her tummy. She pokes ...

Dr. Ajibade, a Nigerian-born linguist, researcher, and Yoruba instructor is revolutionizing the teaching of Yoruba at Indiana University Bloomington and beyond. Through his innovative psycholinguistic ...

THE pan-Yoruba sociopolitical organisation, Afenifere, on Thursday, expressed worry about the decline in the use and mastery of the Yoruba language among the Yoruba people in South-West Nigeria. To ...

FROM my name, it is clear that I am Yoruba and from this point of view alone, it is strange that I should be talking about encounters with what should come to me naturally. But looking back, I can say ...

While there is no incentive for the promotion of Yoruba language and more and more native speakers of the language are losing their native tongues, American government and its citizens are ironically ...

Philip Akoda is one of the faces of digital language preservation in Africa. Through his startup, The African Languages Project (AFLANG), he has championed several projects aimed at preserving African ...