ktravula – a travelogue!

Seeking Writers

Hey dear blog readers, I am seeking short fiction from Nigeria (or around the world) written originally in Yoruba for a short project. Do you know anyone (contemporary or otherwise), upcoming or established, who write/wrote short stories in Yoruba? Do they still write? Are their works accessible online? Where can I find it? Where can I find them?

If the only person(s) you know write only novels and not short fiction, please send me their contact as well, as long as they write in Yoruba. Thank you.

Seeking Writers was published on March 31st, 2011, with the tags , , under the News category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

Twitter in Yoruba…

is not here yet, but it will be soon enough if any thing in this good news in collaborative translation is anything to go by. Click on the link to go to the translation centre and request for Yoruba as one of the new desirable languages. Right now they only have French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Later we’ll worry about who wants to use it.

Twitter in Yoruba… was published on February 15th, 2011, with the tags , , , , , under the Literature, Travelling category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

Americans Who Speak Yoruba

A news story in The Punch, today.

Americans Who Speak Yoruba was published on January 9th, 2011, with the tags , , , under the Academic, News, Travelling category. There are currently no comments on this article so far.

American Students in Nigeria

I recently came across these blogs of the American students on the Flagship Yoruba Programme in my home University in Ibadan via Facebook, (thanks to Buchi). I mentioned this Flagship Programme on this blog once while I was in Ibadan in the summer before the students arrived. I want to share it with you now. From this distance, I have a new pride and a new appreciation for the field of language teaching as well as a chance to share in the journeys and experience of these new students in their immersion in the language and culture of my homeland.

Follow their blogs and share in their experience as they move through Nigeria:

http://www.northoflagos.wordpress.com by Cara “Titilayo” Harshman.

http://irinajoyinbo.wordpress.com by Kevin “Kayode” Barry.

http://wellesleyh.wordpress.com by Lauren Halloran

Here are some of the videos from the blogs. Note that much of the Yoruba language capability of the person in this video was acquired long before she even set foot on Nigerian soil. This is a testament to the progress of Yoruba language studies in the Wisconsin University at Madison, and a victory for globalization.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SlgnGAGFsU and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsltcnHxzfI. And in this amazing one, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLzWfxBRa8Q), where Titi takes a walk around the University of Ibadan.

Enjoy, and leave them some encouraging comments too.

American Students in Nigeria was published on November 22nd, 2010, with the tags , , under the Academic, adventures, Fun, Observations, Travelling category. There are currently 4 comments on this article so far.

Did I?

Here’s Lagbaja’s latest video. One thing that is peculiar to Lagbaja is the way he weaves cultures into each other seemingly flawlessly. Talk of hybridity. This one is done in Spanish and Yoruba, and the music is nice.

I like what I’ve seen so far.

Did I? was published on July 30th, 2010, with the tags , , , , , under the Art, Fun category. There are currently 2 comments on this article so far.