If you live abroad and have pondered on how to keep your kids interested in Nigerian culture, this brilliant mother of two has come up with a solution.
Gbemisola Isimi came up with a fun show idea when she realized that her 3-year-old daughter who loved to watch videos on her iPad, was not being exposed to Yoruba rhymes for kids, because there weren’t any available on Youtube. She started by translating the English nursery rhymes her daughter liked into Yoruba.
Culture Tree TV (available on Youtube) aims to teach youngsters Yoruba by translating old English nursery rhymes and children stories into animated videos in Yoruba. Just look at these cute kids go!
We hope Nigerian parents all over the world will take advantage of this fun platform to train their kids. We also hope to see Culture Tree Tv expand to accommodate as many Nigerian languages as possible.
Have you ever imagined being able to tell the time in Yoruba? Well, now you can with the Yoruba Watch Faces created by tech enthusiast and Software Engineer, Moyinoluwa Adeyemi.
This Computer Science graduate who has created a sizeable number of Android Watch Faces became inspired to create a way to tell the time in Yoruba after looking at a clock on a Friday evening after work.
Soon after, she started working on this idea, and began gathering all the knowledge she gained from the Natural Language Processing classes she took while in school.
Moyinoluwa has been doing awesome work even before her Android Watch Faces became popular. In 2013, she was the event developer of TEDxIfe that held in OAU, and was also on the 14-member team that helped improve the ranking of the university from 6th to 1st in Nigeria at the Webometrics ranking of universities.
Moyinoluwa is currently the Software Engineer at Swifta System and Services International.
Two of these Watch Faces are currently available for free download on Google Play Store, with each of them depicting a man and woman in Yoruba attire.
During his recent trip to the U.S, the Ooni of Ife visited the Redeemed Christian Church of God with his Olori.
However, this video of him singing ‘Jesus is my father’ just went viral and Nigerians had so much to say about it.
According to some, the Ooni of Ife should only propagate the religion of his ancestors.
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1. THIS BOOK:
The stress was real.
2. You, halfway into every single Yoruba class:
No time.
3. When you see Yoruba class for double period on the timetable.
Who did we offend?
4. You, during Yoruba class pretending you understand what is happening.
Can this period end?
5. When the Yoruba teacher picks you to read a passage for the class.
Hay God!
6. When your Yoruba teacher tells you to translate a poem from English to Yoruba.
Do you mean me well?
7. When the invigilator gives you the question paper but you have already finished shading your obj sheet.
The power of guessing.
8. How the students who can’t speak Yoruba see the exam questions:
What is this?
9. When your teacher separates you from all your Yoruba friends.
Is it fair?
10. When someone asks for extra sheet during Yoruba exam.
Who is this one?
11. When you just write Yoruba song lyrics for your essay and submit.
“Gongo Aso kutupu awu…”
12. You, mixing Yoruba and English during your exam like:
I’ve tried, abeg.
13. When you managed to know the Yoruba word, but you still fail because of wrong intonation marks.
Are you not evil?
14. You, after every Yoruba exam:
You already know you have banged.
PS: Baby boy here means he’s winning at life a.k.a ‘chopping life’.
Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, who is on a visit to the U.S, will be hosting the Odunde festival which celebrates the Yoruba race in the U.S annually.
Here are 10 reasons why he’s an awesome Nigerian monarch:
1. He is an established accountant and a member of professional bodies such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an Associate Accounting Technician.
2. He is forty and still living the royal baby-boy lifestyle.
3. He runs a chain of successful businesses including Inagbe Cocowood Factory, a home furniture brand which makes use of local raw materials for production.
4. He made efforts to squash the notorious Ife/Modakeke beef and even started a fund to develop both towns and their environs.
5. Celebrities like Olamide aren’t shy to sit with him.
6. He even paid Super Eagles player, Obafemi Martins a visit.
7. He and his wife, Olori Wuraola, only know how to slay.
8. To add to his feathers, he was recently appointed as the Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka
9. During his visit to the U.S, he will be visiting President Obama at the White House and is set to receive a honorary award.
10. In his honor, New York senator, Kevin Parker and Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams, secured permission and declared June 13 as Yoruba day.
This post isn’t here to bore you about how Nigeria has the highest rate of twins in the world. No, seriously, it’s not news.
It’s about a video that will definitely leave you in shock.
According to these British twin vloggers, there’s a “little place called Yoruba” which has the highest birth rate of twins in the world. Wait what?
After trying to explain how/why the Yoruba people name twins and pronouncing the twin names, Taiye and Kehinde, in the most ridiculous manner…
They ended the video with some “Yorubian folk music”.
What’s all this yama yama?
When foreigners try to explain African culture but fail at it.
In all honesty, they almost had it sha. But their reference to Yoruba as a place and description of Orlando Owoh’s music as “Yorubian folk music” is just unbearable.
Watch the full video here.
You used to be so in love with your Yoruba bae and enjoyed your relationship for 7 good years and even wore the same aso ebi to weddings.
But it’s 2016 and you want to move on to newer things. Your demon traits must sha come to life.
Don’t even waste your time because one of these could be her reaction:
She could just jejely wait for you to explain where you think you’re going because of ordinary breakup.
On the evening of April 23rd, Queen B blessed the world with her visual album titled Lemonade, which premiered on HBO.
As if she wanted to kill us with slayage, she featured several awesome people such as Ibeyi (the French-Cuban twins), Zendaya, Amandla Stenberg…
And even Serena ‘Slayrena’ Williams.
Beyonce also featured Nigerian Afromysterics artist and Nike ambassador, Laolu Senbanjo.
He channeled his “Sacred art of the Ori”, which is his own way of expressing Yoruba spirituality through art, in Beyonce’s album.
Beyonce just had to recognise the fierceness of Yoruba goddess, Osun and channeled the goddess with her yellow dress and by opening these golden doors with water gushing out of them.
Beyonce wore a mischievous smile while breaking car mirrors and water hydrants.
Osun is also known for her unpredictable temperament, and is associated with beauty, femininity, twins and water.
Although most Nigerians are not exactly familiar with our indigenous culture, it shouldn’t always take “foreign exposure” to make Nigerian culture and customs appreciated locally.
One peaceful day, people were jejely boarding an aircraft, preparing for take off when kasala burst.
A fight broke out between a Yoruba woman and another Asian man.
And instead of being calm, she lost all chill and the Yoruba in her was unleashed.
All of a suddenly another Asian man who was trying to make peace burst into pidgin out of nowhere.
All that pidgin didn’t make her any calm, she still continued shouting like…
Na wa o!
Mummy calm down na.
When she said “Ton ba bi e da” (If they born you well).
