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.
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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;
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