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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In early November, Clubhouse announced the addition of support for 13 new languages on the platform and while it was welcome news, particularly for those in India, there were unfortunately no African ...