The Lagos State House of Assembly recently passed a bill to make Yoruba language compulsory in all schools in the state in both public and private schools. Sina Fadare asks if there is any ray of hope ...

LAST week, the Oyo State Government warned that the Yoruba language and culture are facing a serious threat, hence the need to look inward and prevent them from going into extinction. It particularly ...

Yorùbá language educator and cultural advocate, Damilola Adebonojo, has raised concerns over the marginalisation of African languages – particularly Yorùbá – in the literary space. Adebonojo, ...

SOME Yoruba leaders, including President of the Yoruba World Congress, YWC, Emeritus Professor, Senator Banji Akintoye, have expressed concern over what they described as the alarming rate at which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the frightening decline in the use of Yoruba Language as a means of communication in Southwest, the Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Monisade Afuye has tasked state governments and traditional ...

Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

A Yoruba folklore and cultural night, the event aims to bridge generational gap by reconnecting both young and old with their ...

Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) has integrated the Yoruba Language into its General Nigeria Studies (GNS) curriculum to foster the language’s preservation and encourage its use among ...