Preserving Yorùbá Heritage. Building Futures.
Language is memory, archives are resistance.
I teach, translate, and archive our textual heritage
to ensure our stories are never forgotten.
About Me
Hello there!
I’m Damilola Adebonojo, widely known as Ìyá Yorùbá. I am a Yoruba language specialist, a scholar, educator, and cultural steward committed to preserving and amplifying Yorùbá language and literary heritage.
As a Ph.D candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia, my research bridges feminist translation, digital humanities, and African literary recovery. I teach Yorùbá language and literature and lead cultural initiatives that center memory and the preservation of our indigenous knowledge systems.
I am the founder of Alámọ̀já Yorùbá, an online Yorùbá language school; Yoruversity, a self-paced Yorùbá learning platform; and YorùbáTexts.com, a growing digital archive and metadata-rich counter-catalog for Yorùbá-language texts. Across all these efforts, my work is fueled by a singular vision: that our languages, stories, and epistemologies deserve to be preserved with care, taught with clarity, and remembered with pride.
Want to collaborate, learn Yorùbá, or support my work? Explore my projects, get in touch, and let’s do something meaningful together.
Translations: I provide professional and accurate Translations, Editing & Proofreading of write-ups of any genre from English to Yorùbá Language and vice-versa
Tutoring: I tutor people of all age range irrespective of tribe or race on how to speak, read and write perfectly in Yorùbá language. I provide both physical and online classes as Distance is hardly a barrier. My tutorship ranges from intermediary to expert depending on the proficiency of the student.
Project Management: I manage Yorùbá based Thesis, Researches, Movie Subtitles and other project types. Everything is achievable in Yorùbá Language.
My other services include:
- Simultaneous Interpretations
- Audio/Video Transcription
- Localization
- Voice – over/Jingles
Due to the Pandemic, it now holds online.
Register your Children for the Yorùbá Summer Camp 2022.
The Yorùbá Club was launched in an effort to make learning a continual practice for children in the diaspora.
It holds every Saturday at 4pm (Nigerian Time)
Register your children for the Yorùbá Virtual Learning Club
What my Clients/Students say about me
So far, I have:
Happy Clients
Yorùbá Classes Done
Yorùbá Translations Done
One-on-one Students
Group Students
Social Media Followers
Would you like to learn Yoruba at your own Pace?
These self-paced Yoruba courses are designed to make studying Yoruba language and culture easy, fun, and accessible to everyone, regardless of location, schedule, or learning level. These courses will guide you through all the steps you need to learn Yoruba, from learning your first sentence to mastering more complex words, phrases, and expressions. Practical activities are also incorporated into all lessons.
All the courses are crafted in a way that you have absolute control over what you want to learn. See some below;
Have you gotten your copy of my Book for Learners?
Learning Yorùbá requires the learner to have a good command of the Verbs.
This book is a useful tool for beginners of the language, it presents numerous verbs and usage samples to make the language learning easy for beginners.
Click the link below to purchase a copy
My Affiliations
Imani Edu-Tainers African Dance Company
An Organisation which provide training, education and cultural enrichment in African traditions.
Adúláwọ̀TV
A Digital Platform for News, Talk Shows, Events, Documentaries, Interviews, Festivals.
African Studies Institute, University of Georgia
African Language Teachers Association
American Association of Teachers of Yorùbá
Forgotten Women in Yoruba Literature: R.O. Johnston’s Impact
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