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  thank you in yoruba language: Journey into the Yorùbá Language Pasquale De Marco, 2025-05-16 Yorùbá, a tonal language spoken by over 30 million people in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, is a vibrant and expressive language that reflects the rich cultural heritage of the Yorùbá people. If you are interested in learning Yorùbá, whether for personal, professional, or academic reasons, this comprehensive and practical guide will provide you with everything you need to get started on your language-learning journey. With a focus on communication and cultural understanding, this book takes a step-by-step approach to teaching Yorùbá, making it accessible to learners of all levels. From the basics of pronunciation and grammar to more advanced concepts such as noun classes and verb moods, this book covers all the essentials of Yorùbá in a clear and engaging manner. Along the way, you will also gain insights into Yorùbá culture and traditions, exploring everything from traditional festivals and ceremonies to music, dance, and art. You will learn about the history of the Yorùbá people and their contributions to world civilization, and you will discover the many ways that Yorùbá is used in the modern world, from literature and media to business and technology. This book is packed with features to enhance your learning experience, including: * Clear and concise explanations of grammar and vocabulary * Engaging exercises and activities to reinforce your learning * Comprehensive grammar and vocabulary sections for easy reference * Insights into Yorùbá culture and traditions * Real-world examples and dialogues to help you apply your knowledge Whether you are a complete beginner or you have some prior knowledge of Yorùbá, this book will help you to improve your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, and to develop a deeper understanding of Yorùbá culture. With its clear explanations, engaging exercises, and comprehensive grammar and vocabulary sections, this book is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to learn Yorùbá. If you like this book, write a review on google books!
  thank you in yoruba language: Yoruba Language: the Yoruba Phrasebook and Dictionary Abeni Adeola, 2016-07-06 This guide to Yoruba language collects the most common Yoruba phrases and expressions as well as an English-Yoruba/Yoruba-English dictionary. This phrasebook includes greetings, food items, directions, sightseeing and many other categories of expressions that will help anyone wanting to learn Yoruba.
  thank you in yoruba language: A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language Samuel Crowther, 1870
  thank you in yoruba language: Principles and Concepts of Yoruba Language and Yoruba Proverbs J. S. Olaoye, 2012-06-30 Author J. S. Olaoye encourages the preservation of good heritage in his new book Principles and Concepts of Yoruba Language and 1,122 Yoruba Proverbs (2nd Edition) Chapter one deals with the basic principles guiding the writing and speaking of correct and modern sentences in Yoruba language. It begins by drawing peoples’ attention to the recognition and pronunciation of the letters of Yoruba alphabet a, b, d, correctly; to the formation of syllables and difference between old and modern writings. The guide includes the composition of short sentences. Civilization seems to have brought corresponding challenges and possible changes on peoples' outlook and lifestyles. Among these challenges is the preservation of their native culture and language. There is a great potential of losing their skills to use their mother tongue. Thus, author J. S. Olaoye releases his new book to solve and help prevent this problem from occurring. Chapter two gives and explains purposes for which Yoruba uses proverbs; and chapter three provides the different types of proverbs that are used in different situations. Chapter four contains one thousand, one hundred, twenty-two Yoruba proverbs; each with a literal English translation. This fourth chapter ended the first edition of this book with only eight hundred, sixty-two Yoruba proverbs. with the tittle Yoruba Proverbs. Chapter five contains the concept of calculation, which brought about Yoruba numerals from one to five hundred; followed by Yoruba calendar. The Yoruba calendar in turn brought to light different festival that formed up the concept of market days including weekly, monthly and yearly activities. Through Principles and Concepts of Yoruba Language and 1,122 Yoruba Proverbs (2nd Edition), by author J. S. Olaoye, parents or teachers will have perfect guide to teach their children or students the very basic skills in Yoruba language from A, B, D, to proficient conversation and reading skills, a step to preserve a great legacy.
  thank you in yoruba language: Oriki'badan Fru Doh, 2009-03-15 ORIKI'BADAN, is an entertaining, revealing, and equally didactic poem in which Doh, through an enchanting metaphorical backdrop, recaptures a memorable era-rich, diverse, challenging, yet gratifying-in the life of a distinguished institution-the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Characteristically bitter about those in power and the socio-political state of affairs on the African continent, this is a rare shot of Doh paying glaring tribute to his alma mater along with the distinguished faculty and student body that gave Ibadan its character during his days there as a student.
  thank you in yoruba language: A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language, Etc Yoruba Language, Samuel Adjai Crowther, 1872
  thank you in yoruba language: My First Yoruba Alphabets Picture Book with English Translations Femi S., 2019-11-19 Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Yoruba ? Learning Yoruba can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Yoruba Alphabets. Yoruba Words. English Translations.
  thank you in yoruba language: The Yoruba Traditional Healers of Nigeria Mary Adekson, 2004-01-05 This work examines the counseling approaches and techniques used by Yoruba traditional healers of Nigeria. It also describes the functions performed by Yoruba traditional healers when they work within the Yoruba cultural milieu. The information elicited from Yoruba traditional healers through videotape and interviews was analyzed by a Nigerian woma
  thank you in yoruba language: The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World Toyin Falola, Matt D. Childs, 2005-05-02 This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Yoruba identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Yoruba in the New World. The contributors are Augustine H. Agwuele, Christine Ayorinde, Matt D. Childs, Gibril R. Cole, David Eltis, Toyin Falola, C. Magbaily Fyle, Rosalyn Howard, Robin Law, Babatunde Lawal, Russell Lohse, Paul E. Lovejoy, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Robin Moore, Ann O'Hear, Luis Nicolau Parés, Michele Reid, João José Reis, Kevin Roberts, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares. Blacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III, editor Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, founding editors
  thank you in yoruba language: Colloquial Yoruba Antonia Yetunde Folarin Schleicher, 2015-08 Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, this easy to use and up to date course provides a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Yoruba with no prior knowledge of the language required. Colloquial Yoruba is:interactive - with lots of exercises for regular practiceclear - providing concise grammar notespractical - with useful vocabulary and pronunciation guidescomplete - including answer key and reference section. By the end of this course you will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Yoruba in a broad range of everyday situations. Accompany.
  thank you in yoruba language: Yorùbá as Second Language Oyètúndé Awóyẹlé, 1989
  thank you in yoruba language: Mapping Yorùbá Networks Kamari Maxine Clarke, 2004-07-12 Three flags fly in the palace courtyard of Òyótúnjí African Village. One represents black American emancipation from slavery, one black nationalism, and the third the establishment of an ancient Yorùbá Empire in the state of South Carolina. Located sixty-five miles southwest of Charleston, Òyótúnjí is a Yorùbá revivalist community founded in 1970. Mapping Yorùbá Networks is an innovative ethnography of Òyótúnjí and a theoretically sophisticated exploration of how Yorùbá òrìsà voodoo religious practices are reworked as expressions of transnational racial politics. Drawing on several years of multisited fieldwork in the United States and Nigeria, Kamari Maxine Clarke describes Òyótúnjí in vivid detail—the physical space, government, rituals, language, and marriage and kinship practices—and explores how ideas of what constitutes the Yorùbá past are constructed. She highlights the connections between contemporary Yorùbá transatlantic religious networks and the post-1970s institutionalization of roots heritage in American social life. Examining how the development of a deterritorialized network of black cultural nationalists became aligned with a lucrative late-twentieth-century roots heritage market, Clarke explores the dynamics of Òyótúnjí Village’s religious and tourist economy. She discusses how the community generates income through the sale of prophetic divinatory consultations, African market souvenirs—such as cloth, books, candles, and carvings—and fees for community-based tours and dining services. Clarke accompanied Òyótúnjí villagers to Nigeria, and she describes how these heritage travelers often returned home feeling that despite the separation of their ancestors from Africa as a result of transatlantic slavery, they—more than the Nigerian Yorùbá—are the true claimants to the ancestral history of the Great Òyó Empire of the Yorùbá people. Mapping Yorùbá Networks is a unique look at the political economy of homeland identification and the transnational construction and legitimization of ideas such as authenticity, ancestry, blackness, and tradition.
  thank you in yoruba language: Women in Yoruba Religions Oyèrónké Oládém?, 2022-07-19 Uncovers the influence of Yoruba culture on women’s religious lives and leadership in religions practiced by Yoruba people Women in Yoruba Religions examines the profound influence of Yoruba culture in Yoruba religion, Christianity, Islam, and Afro-Diasporic religions such as Santeria and Candomblé, placing gender relations in historical and social contexts. While the coming of Christianity and Islam to Yorubaland has posed significant challenges to Yoruba gender relations by propagating patriarchal gender roles, the resources within Yoruba culture have enabled women to contest the full acceptance of those new norms. Oyeronke Olademo asserts that Yoruba women attain and wield agency in family and society through their economic and religious roles, and Yoruba operate within a system of gender balance, so that neither of the sexes can be subsumed in the other. Olademo utilizes historical and phenomenological methods, incorporating impressive data from interviews and participant-observation, showing how religion is at the core of Yoruba lived experiences and is intricately bound up in all sectors of daily life in Yorubaland and abroad in the diaspora.
  thank you in yoruba language: Ancient Text Messages of the Yoruba Bata Drum Amanda Villepastour, 2016-12-05 The bata is one of the most important and representative percussion traditions of the people in southwest Nigeria, and is now learnt and performed around the world. In Cuba, their own bata tradition derives from the Yoruba bata from Africa yet has had far more research attention than its African predecessor. Although the bata is one of the oldest known Yoruba drumming traditions, the drum and its unique language are now unfamiliar to many contemporary Yoruba people. Amanda Villepastour provides the first academic study of the bata's communication technology and the elaborate coded spoken language of bata drummers, which they refer to as 'ena bata'. Villepastour explains how the bata drummers' speech encoding method links into universal linguistic properties, unknown to the musicians themselves. The analysis draws the direct links between what is spoken in Yoruba, how Yoruba is transformed in to the coded language (ena), how ena prescribes the drum strokes and, finally, how listeners (and which listeners) extract linguistic meaning from what is drummed. The description and analysis of this unique musical system adds substantially to what is known about bata drumming specifically, Yoruba drumming generally, speech surrogacy in music and coded systems of speaking. This book will appeal not only to ethnomusicologists and anthropologists, but also to linguists, drummers and those interested in African Studies.
  thank you in yoruba language: In Light of Africa Allan Charles Dawson, 2014-01-01 In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia's Afro-Brazilian communities. In his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.
  thank you in yoruba language: Tituba Dave Tamanini, 2020-05-13 A Promise and a Hope Enslaved Tituba has been faithful to a promise to her dying mama in Africa. A Mother’s Agony When Tituba’s only son dies trying to escape slavery, her life changes forever. Witches Tear into Salem The villagers see witches and demons everywhere. They say the Devil has sent them to steal souls, but they are wrong. It is Tituba—conjuring spectral images that spark the infamous witch hunts of 1692. A Woman’s Dilemma As neighbors accuse neighbors of witchcraft, hysterical trials follow and Tituba gloats in her power. But when hangings begin she must confront her secret crime. Tituba The Intentional Witch of Salem, with a magical point of view, explores the emotions and reasons driving this unstable time.
  thank you in yoruba language: Infinity and Me Ola V. Washington, 2012-10-26 Infinity and Me is a collection of poetry of Life, Love and God.
  thank you in yoruba language: Practical English Listening: Dictation Book: Volume 1 Willyam Wen, 2022-11-15 If you are a person who really wants to sharpen your listening skill individually or if you are an English teacher who need a proper English listening book to be used in your class, then this book is the right book for you. It is designed specifically and carefully so that all materials in this book are easy and fun to study so that you and your students will not be bored in sharpening their and your listening skill.
  thank you in yoruba language: The Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa Alfred Burdon Ellis, 1894
  thank you in yoruba language: Masquerade O.O. Sangoyomi, 2024-07-02 Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future. “A bewitching, thrilling and vibrant novel that had me enthralled with every twist and turn.” —Jennifer Saint, New York Times bestselling author Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her blacksmith guild, who were already shunned as social pariahs, grow even worse. Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all; he is the warrior king, and he has chosen her to be his wife. In a sudden change of fortune, Òdòdó soars to the very heights of society. But after a lifetime of subjugation, she finds the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy too enticing to resist. As tensions with rival states grow, revealing elaborate schemes and enemies hidden in plain sight, Òdòdó must defy the cruel king she has been forced to wed by reforging the shaky loyalties of the court in her favor, or risk losing everything—including her life. Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade takes you on a journey of epic power struggles and political intrigue which turn an entire region on its head. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
  thank you in yoruba language: The Note Christopher Cromwell, 2015-10-07 Bertrand is a street musician who’s often found screaming on the boulevards and squares of Amsterdam. Most chose to ignore him…that is, until his synapses line up giving him the ability to make music that is divined from the ether. It’s been said that music is one of the only activities that activates, stimulates, and uses the entire brain. Could Bertrand’s music be a conduit to our shared celestial mind—the medium bridging the conscious to the unconscious world? Many of the Gypsies and Street-people who follow him like a God believe so. What they don’t know, is that Bertrand was a child prodigy back in the U.S., a child of wealthy New Yorkers with an inheritance that others want to take charge of. They want him back on his meds that control his schizophrenia and render him docile, meds that close the door to his musical genius…and his ability to touch others to the very core of their being. Christopher takes you into the depths of Bertrand’s world, a world sizzling with music and the characters on the fringe that make it on its most primal level. And alternately, into the world of those that could care less, whose only motivation is money.
  thank you in yoruba language: Kaaro Tomi - Good Morning Tomi Abimbola Anifowoshe, 2021-07-31 Follow Tomi as he wishes everyone a Good Morning in this English/Yoruba bilingual children's book. With a simple story and beautiful illustrations, this the perfect book to share with your child to introduce a different language and the concept of saying good morning. Recommended for children ages infant - 6years old. Keywords: Yoruba childrens book;Bilingual children's book;Yoruba baby books;Yoruba toddler books;Black children's book;Diverse children's book;Black toddler book;
  thank you in yoruba language: Allow Me to Introduce Myself Onyi Nwabineli, 2024-05-28 Her life. Her rules. Finally. Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother’s social media empire before “momfluencers” were even a thing. For years, Ophelia documented every birthday, every skinned knee, every milestone and meltdown for millions of strangers to fawn over and pick apart. Now, at twenty-five, Anuri is desperate to put her way-too-public past behind her and start living on her own terms. But it’s not going so great. She can barely walk down the street without someone recognizing her, and the fraught relationship with her father has fallen apart. Then there’s her PhD application (still unfinished) and her drinking problem (still going strong). When every detail of her childhood was so intensely scrutinized, how can she tell what she really wants? Still, Ophelia is never far away and has made it clear she won’t go down without a fight. With Noelle, Anuri’s five-year-old half sister now being forced down the same path, Anuri discovers she has a new mission in life… To take back control of the family narrative. Through biting wit and heartfelt introspection, this darkly humorous story dives deep into the deceptive allure of a picture-perfect existence, the overexposure of children in social media and the excitement of self-discovery.
  thank you in yoruba language: Princess Yemisi Adekunle Ijeoma Ononuju, 2021-09-08 Princess Yemisi Adekunle is not a real person. The story in this book, though filled with realistic assumptions, however, it didn’t happen. It was designed to make the reader laugh because life imitates art. You can identify with some of the scenes. Though the names and the landmarks may seem and sound familiar, however, it is just a fictional story based on “What ifs.” What if there is a kingdom in the remote State of Nigeria, where evils parade at any given moment, a leader emerged to letter differently, honesty, dedication, and made real sacrifices for the sake of love, the land he loved dearly. What if, as a human being, makes all the mistakes that due to him, but still emerges as a symbol to be reckoned with, a symbol of hope, which his people can count on at a moment’s notice. What if there is a princess somewhere in Nigeria, pretty as she can be, however, is human. A mother of five boys with the responsibility of a whole kingdom to care for. The brink of love that pushes her to make the utmost mistake of her life, shooting herself on her two feet. Then emerged a consular, in the hands of a boyfriend, who understands and is willing to allow time to detect an end. What if there exists a harmony whereby there is not single finger-pointing among three highly educated and sophisticated women whose intention is to please the man they love very much at all cost. Yes, there was bitterness, but the bitterness didn’t reach the bone to lame it. It was always managed in order to achieve the ultimate goal, “Peace.” This book saw you as the actor, acting out your real feelings. Most scenes will make you laugh, cry, and teach you a lesson to be learned. You can identify with Iyabo, who in the means of a very difficult situation, volunteers to be the shoulder of the family where everyone can count on. You have, yourself, been carrying the load of the whole family whether you like it or not.
  thank you in yoruba language: Yoruba Proverbs Oyekan Owomoyela, 2008-05-01 “The leopard’s stealthy gait is not a result of cowardice; it is simply stalking a prey.” (Do not mistake people’s gentle nature for spinelessness.) “The rabbit that eats yams and enjoys them will return for more.” (People remember good experiences and seek their repetition.) “The chicken sweats, but its down prevents us from knowing.” (Everybody has his or her problems, although strangers may not guess.) “The mouth does not say, ‘I ate once before.’” (Hunger is not something one assuages once and for all.) “It is a light rain that chases a child indoors; it is a raging torrent that shakes the raffia palm to its roots.” (Every person, however lowly or mighty, has his or her nemesis.) Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela’s introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural beliefs, the proverbs are arranged by theme into five sections: the good person; the fortunate person (or the good life); relationships; human nature; rights and responsibilities; and truisms. Each proverb is presented in Yoruba with a literal English translation, followed by a brief commentary explaining the meaning of the proverb within the oral tradition. This definitive source book on Yoruba proverbs is the first to give such detailed, systematic classification and analysis alongside a careful assessment of the risks and pitfalls of submitting this genre to the canons of literary analysis.
  thank you in yoruba language: A Grammar of the Yoruba Language Samuel Crowther, 1852
  thank you in yoruba language: Their Journey Olusola Sophia Anyanwu, 2018-05-05 Alade is now a new man in character and full of love for his young, beautiful, and ambitious wife. He strives to gain back the right standing with his wife. He is no longer the sly old serpent chasing women with apples and breaking promises. How can he achieve changing the wrong notions held about him? How long is it going to take to continue trying to rectify the damage done in his past and on their wedding night? Is he ever going to relent on redeeming his past? On the other hand, is Bridget going to be accommodating? Find out!
  thank you in yoruba language: A Complete Mother Kenny Taiwo, 2018-11-22 This book, A Complete Mother, takes a periscopic insight into the world of motherhood. It looks into the many trainings of mothers on their children and how to train those children to be useful for their families, communities, the societies, and the world in general. This book salutes all mothers of the world in their different cultural areas of abode, paying great tribute to every mother around the world for their hard work, sacrifices, and aims at bringing their children to a great world economy of prosperity and peace. This book is for many leaders all over the world, including mothers and fathers in their private homes, to improve on their deficiencies and inadequacies of qualities desirable of a good leader at home and everywhere to produce what the world needs. This book is for many children of every culture all over the world to know what is expected when growing up from infants to adults at any given time in their living habitats and how to develop and contribute to the world economy, prosperity, and peace. This book is for the guardians, parents, children, and warlords to ignore religious fanaticism and extremism and produce useful children and adults for a congenial and peaceful world devoid of religious intolerance and violence. Irrespective of her nationality and irrespective of her nativity, beginnings, color, or birthright, a mother is a mother. Nevertheless, there are other mothers around the world that are not known for their melodramatic performances in our living world. I am forever thankful to have been blessed with one of those whose mannerisms, attitudes, qualities, actions, trainings, pronunciations, patience, steadfastness, and unconditional love inspired the creation of this patented book: A Complete Mother. Every part of this book must be read.
  thank you in yoruba language: The Invention of Women Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, 1997 The author traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. THE INVENTION OF WOMEN demonstrates that biology as a rationale for organizing the social world is a Western construction not applicable in Yoruban culture where social organization was determined by relative age.
  thank you in yoruba language: The Black Sleuth John Edward Bruce, 2002 A novel featuring the first black detective in American fiction, boldly attacking white prejudice and racial injustice in the U.S. and abroad.
  thank you in yoruba language: Highlife Music in West Africa Sonny Oti, 2009 Highlife Music in West Africa is an excursion into the origins and development of an extraordinary music form. Highlife music is essentially an urban music, but unlike dance music performed using Western musical instruments, its dynamism is based less in the aesthetics of form and style than in song-texts. Critics treat highlife as a popular music genre, but this fails to acknowledge the role that the lyrics of highlife music played in the search for political, economic, and national growth and stability in Africa. Highlife musicians' messages, like drama and theater scripts, not only reflect Africa's culture but also highlight her social, economic, and political problems. The involvement of radicals and Pan-Africanists has helped elevate highlife musicians from the status of entertainers to a more serious and responsible one, as modern African town criers, whose song-texts are communal messages, warnings, and counseling.
  thank you in yoruba language: His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa, 2024-05-07 WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; FINALIST FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER. A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. “It is a testament to the power of His Name Is George Floyd that the book’s most vital moments come not after Floyd’s death, but in its intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life . . . Impressive.” —New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) “Since we know George Floyd’s death with tragic clarity, we must know Floyd’s America—and life—with tragic clarity. Essential for our times.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “A much-needed portrait of the life, times, and martyrdom of George Floyd, a chronicle of the racial awakening sparked by his brutal and untimely death, and an essential work of history I hope everyone will read.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by white officer Derek Chauvin. The video recording of his death set off the largest protest movement in the history of the United States, awakening millions to the pervasiveness of racial injustice. But long before his face was painted onto countless murals and his name became synonymous with civil rights, Floyd was a father, partner, athlete, and friend who constantly strove for a better life. His Name Is George Floyd tells the story of a beloved figure from Houston's housing projects as he faced the stifling systemic pressures that come with being a Black man in America. Placing his narrative within the context of the country's enduring legacy of institutional racism, this deeply reported account examines Floyd's family roots in slavery and sharecropping, the segregation of his schools, the overpolicing of his community amid a wave of mass incarceration, and the callous disregard toward his struggle with addiction—putting today's inequality into uniquely human terms. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with Floyd's closest friends and family, his elementary school teachers and varsity coaches, civil rights icons, and those in the highest seats of political power, Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa offer a poignant and moving exploration of George Floyd’s America, revealing how a man who simply wanted to breathe ended up touching the world.
  thank you in yoruba language: Roots Recovered! James E. White, Jean-Gontran Quenum, 2004 The authors provide valuable information specific for African travel and tracing African genealogy using traditional methods, the Internet and DNA technology.
  thank you in yoruba language: Pass on the Baton Yemi Adebiyi, 2012-01-31 Pass on the Baton is about Southwest Academy, a high school community that mirrors the larger society. It is a story of a patriotic repairman, Desmond Odu, who combined hard work, selfless love and devotion to duty in his strides to improve his classroom constituency. How Teacher Desmond and his crew surmounted the obstacles ready to thwart their noble intentions are strands with which this stimulating story is written. The story celebrates good leadership and motivated followers in their transformation strides to a better future. In this fast-paced, humorous, entertaining and romantic school classic, the author brings to life dream characters - the expectation of a society yearning for direction.
  thank you in yoruba language: Report of the Yoruba Orthography Committee Yoruba Orthography Committee, 1969
  thank you in yoruba language: Listening Inggris Praktis: Dictation Book: Volume 1 Willyam Wen, 2019-11-19 Jika anda adalah seorang yang ingin meningkatkan kemampuan listening anda secara otodidak atau jika anda adalah seorang guru Bahasa Inggris yang membutuhkan buku panduan listening yang tepat untuk digunakan di kelas, maka buku ini adalah buku yang tepat untuk anda. Didesain secara khusus dan hati-hti sehingga materi-materi yang terdapat di buku ini mudah diikuti dan sangat menyenangkan untuk dipeljri sehingga tidak akan membuat anda atau murid anda menjadi bosan dalam meningkatkan kemampuan listening mereka.
  thank you in yoruba language: Oyinbo Pepe White Face Danuta 'Dana' Mason M.D., 2021-11-16 YOU WILL TRAVEL OVER THREE OCEANS, LIVE ON THREE DIFFERENT CONTINENTS, AND YOU WILL BE VERY SUCCESSFUL. PREDICTED THE FORTUNE TELLER At that time, this prediction sounded ridiculous, and yet, this is exactly what happened. My destiny was written in the stars. Life is a great and wonderous mystery. Don't miss it. In Oyinbo Pepe, Danuta recounts the strange and unusual circumstances that left her stranded in Nigeria, and the surreal adventures that followed her there. THIS AFRICAN STORY WAS WRITTEN BY: DR. DANUTA DANA MASON, MD.
  thank you in yoruba language: The Complete Dictionary of Guosa Language 2Nd Revised Edition Igbineweka Alex G., 2019-02-01 This book is about breaking new grounds in the world zonal lingua franca.
  thank you in yoruba language: Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa Lioba Moshi, 2009-10-23 The study of African language pedagogy and use in the Diaspora was initiated in the 1960s as African countries attained independence from colonial powers. In the continent, the enthusiasm for the use of indigenous languages and scholarship has remained relatively moderate as scholars are conflicted in their loyalty to imperial languages. The attitude towards the use of African languages by African leaders has also hampered scholars' efforts to create and sustain the needed visibility for African languages around the world. Needless to say, the study of African languages is not only critical to the study of language theories but also important in changing Africa's overwhelming reliance on European languages to communicate with each other. The reliance has not only affected the politics of the continent but also its economic wellbeing. An analysis of the enormous developmental challenges facing the African continent will reveal that many of the economic, social, political and cultural challenges have major language components. It can actually be said that the challenges of development in Africa are either outright language challenges or are language- based. More significantly, at the social level in many parts of the continent, African languages are now perceived as inadequate means of communication. Language Pedagogy and Language Use in Africa discusses the importance of teaching and using of African languages in the African continent and beyond and provides illustrations of both their direct and indirect use a result of historical and contemporary contacts, language planning policies and pedagogical concerns. The book contributes to the on-going discussion on the pedagogy, promotion, and use of African languages both on the continent and in the Diaspora.
  thank you in yoruba language: One Week In The Life of A Hypocrite Feyisayo Anjorin, 2020-09-29 One week in the life of Bosun and Titi, lovers longing for the approach of their wedding day, caught in the complicated web of secrets and the demands of trust. One truth could threaten the love journey; but one of the lovers defies the risk and decides to let it all out, ignorant of the mask that has been experienced as a real face, resulting in an unexpected unraveling.
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