Naija to the world! – Nigerian teachers sponsored to US to teach Yoruba in universities and colleges

Eight Nigerian teachers have been sponsored to travel to the US to teach Yoruba language and culture.

According to the post by USMissionsinNigeria via Instagram, the teachers will travel to the US under the 2023 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA).

The teachers will actively teach this in universities and colleges for one academic session.

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The beneficiaries will be expected to polish their teaching skills and share their experience in American society to solidify the relationships between the two nations.

The Fulbright FLTA Program is a nine-month, ECA-funded, non-degree program for early career english teachers or professionals in related fields to teach their native language in an American college or university.

In a related development, a professor of Yoruba Language and Literature at the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Olagoke Alamu in an interview with Tribune stressed on the need of using native languages to teach in Nigerian schools.

Oyinbo Yoruba 

Prof Alamu recently produced a textbook in Yoruba for Chinese universities offering Yoruba Language as a course.

This was the first of its kind in China and he was greatly commended for the good work.

Prof Alamu stated that the Nigerian government must emulate the development by encouraging teaching of students in local languages for effective learning, among other issues.

In his opinion, there should be no reason why Nigerians shouldn’t adopt our own languages for instructions.

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Oyinbo men shock many by participating in yoruba rites 

Meanwhile, you would think that African culture can only be exhibited by Africans, but this thought was countered by a group of oyinbo men.

These oyinbo men as Nigerians refer to them excellently and effortlessly showcased the Yoruba culture of Nigeria in what looked like a ritual ceremony.

In the TikTok video shared, a shocking sight of two oyinbo men playing the talking drum as though it was an easy task was captured.

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