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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every language has its peculiarity, languages make up the entirety of any culture. 7 words and phrases in the Yoruba language with Hausa or Arabic It is also usually common to have some words in a ...

Meet Mikaeel Sodiq Adesina, a Yoruba language digital activist, photographer, videographer and the community lead for the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group. Since he joined the Wikimedia volunteer ...

The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said if necessary measures are not put in place, the Yoruba language may go into extinction soon. In a communique issued at the end of its caucus ...

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 ...