“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 ...

My May 13, 2012 column titled "The Arabic origins of common Yoruba words" elicited interesting reactions. These reactions can be categorized into three: outrage that I dare suggest that Arabic has any ...

A retired Associate Professor of English and ex-Head, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Dr. Bolaji Aremo, talks about his research findings that Yoruba and Igbo ...

If you live in Nigeria, you must have heard this word being used to refer to a married lady especially those from Yoruba origin. Wuraola's fame soon spread to Orunmila, a Yoruba historical figure who ...

Kilowi, the Yoruba card game was created by Cultural Icon and Culture Enthusiast Ìṣọ̀lá (Oluwasẹun Oladàpọ̀ Oliyide) to ...

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 ...

Samuel Ajayi Crowther: "Vocabulary of the Yorùbá Language" Ajayi Crowther was a formerly enslaved person who became a leading intellectual of his time and the father of Yoruba print college and ...

If the Yoruba of South-West Nigeria think the world is going to wait for them to get their act together, they’ve got a thing coming. They are going to serve new cultural and economic overlords even ...

The English language has dominated online discourse as the “universal” language of communication since the inception of the internet. As of February 2020, over half of the websites on the internet are ...

The current holder, His Imperial Majesty Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, is the 51st Ooni, ascending the throne on ...