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Friday, September 21, 2018

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

YORUBA MADE ONE OF THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES IN BRAZIL OOO!

http://www.newsmakersng.com/brazil-gives-yoruba-language-official-status-nobel-laureate-says-ifa-is-alive/ Brazil Gives Yoruba Language Official Status …Nobel Laureate Says IFA is Alive
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From Oriwoegbe Ilori, Sao Paulo/

The Brazilian government has given Yoruba a pride of place among foreign languages spoken in the country.
NewsmakersNG was told in an exclusive interview with the Brazilian minister of culture, Dr Sérgio Sá leitão at the weekend in Brazil that the government has introduced the compulsory study of African History and Yoruba language into the primary and secondary schools curriculum.
The minister spoke at an event where the Institute of African Studies, University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil paraded important dignitaries including Nigerian artists and historians, as well as professors of arts and African studies at a lecture on the importance of Yoruba language in the Brazilian culture and tradition.
According to him, the inclusion of African History and Yoruba Language in the curriculum would help bring the closeness of the African Brazilian people to their roots and thus encourage the understandings of the language among other important languages in Brazil apart from Portuguese which is the official language.
The minister also mentioned the role played by Brazil during the festival of arts and culture, ‘FESTAC 77’, held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977; the constant intercultural programmes between Nigeria and Brazil; the annual carnival of Arts, music and cultural displays featuring prominent African artists and Yoruba writers such as Yinka Shonibare, Adeyinka Olaiya, El Anatsui among many others, including the highly respected Yoruba writer, Professor Wande Abimbola.
Books of African writers present at the event.
Nobel Laureate, Prof Llosa
Speaking at the event, Peruvian Nobel laureate, Prof. Mário Vargas Llosa also made mention of the African community in Peru where the African Peruvians are settled till date.
Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, is known as one of Latin America’s most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation.
According to Vargas Llosa, Yoruba people and their culture have helped the universe, IFA has proven his existence in the beings of mankind right from the inception and IFA is still very much alive and needs to be recognized even more than it is today.
According to Prof Mário Vargas, the Yoruba language should no longer be approached as an ethnic language but a universal language that is alive in culture and tradition of the Africans and her roots around the universe.
Speaking in Yoruba and Portuguese, Prof Katiuscia Ribeiro of the Institute of African Studies drew attention to the African philosophical practices introducing the constant representation of the Yoruba culture and religion in the Brazilian traditional beliefs.
NewsmakersNG learnt that the Yoruba traditional religion today comes after the Catholic practices as the most improving religious practices in the South American country. Several houses of worships called “ILE ASE” are having the Yoruba culture, tradition and language as official, whenever the cults are declared open for the day. Babalawo, Iyalawo, Omo Awo, and Aborisa are all common Yoruba usages in the practice of the Yoruba religion called Candomblé in Brazil.
Prof Kanyitus, USP, Sao Paulo and Olaiya at the event.
A Nigerian carnival artist, painter and illustrator, Adeyinka Olaiya, also expressed the benefits the Yoruba language would bring to the Brazilian culture if fully integrated into the Brazilian educational curriculum.
According to Olaiya, living in Salvador, Brazil, is like living in any of the western states of Nigeria where the Yoruba are predominantly located.
He said, “Most of the cultures and traditions in evidence in Brazil are all of the heritages brought along to the Latin American country by the majority Yoruba families, victims of the BARCO NEGREIROS, the NEGRO BOAT that forcefully brought the enslaved West Africans to Brazil in the 13th century. The Yoruba heritage that represents the majority of the African cultural practices in Brazil today is having several words in Yoruba roots. Akara, Dendê, Iyalode, Babalawo, Iyalawo and lots more are all derived from the Yoruba roots.”

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Monday, September 17, 2018

NIKE AD BY KAEPERNICK CAUSES 31% INCREASE IN SALES

NIKE SALES UP OOO!-DUE TO KAEPERNICK AD OOOO! https://amp-timeinc-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/amp.time one.net/time/5390884/nike-sales-go-up-kaepernick-ad.
Despite Outrage, Nike Sales Increased 31% After Kaepernick Ad

Colin Kaepernick speaks onstage at ACLU SoCal Hosts Annual Bill of Rights Dinner Matt Winkelmeyer—Getty Images
After the ad, many Nike customers blasted the decision on social media

GINA MARTINEZ @G_MARTINEZ_13
September 10th, 2018
Despite the backlash in the wake of Nike’s endorsement deal with Colin Kaepernick, the sportswear company has seen a 31% increase in online sales, according to one outside estimate.

Nike sales grew 31% from Sunday through Tuesday over the Labor Day holiday this year compared with the previous year, according to Edison Trends.

On Sept. 3, Nike debuted their new campaign featuring the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, who sparked the wave of NFL national anthem protests against racial inequality last year. His actions enraged many, leading Kaepernick, who is currently an unsigned free agent, to claim he has been blacklisted by NFL leadership. Nike followed up on Wednesday, releasing an ad featuring Kaepernick, which aired during the NFL season opener on Thursday.

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After the announcement, many Nike customers blasted the decision on social media. Some filmed themselves destroying Nike products and claiming they will boycott the company.

President Trump, who has been a very vocal critic of players kneeling during the anthem, weighed in on Nike’s endorsement deal Friday, questioning the company’s decision.

Correction Sept. 10

The original version of this story misstated the origin of the Nike sales data. It came from an outside sources.

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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Controversial funk singer, Mr. Catra, husband to three wives and father of 32 children, dies at age 49 – Black Women Of Brazil

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Correction of iwe ooo!

'Irrespective Of Genotype, Every African Must Do Something About SCD!'

Yeye Funua Akilimali left America 40 years ago to live in Africa because she wanted her children to be Black and free and be Yorubas, with the language as their first language.

By Fatima Garba Mohammed

A chance discussion about sickle cell at one-time gubernatorial hopeful Engineer Femi Babalola's Ring Road, Ibadan office got Yeye Funua Akilimali Olade really worked up. Someone at the office had remarked that SCD was not a problem in his family and 'in Jesus' name' would never be one.

lya, as she prefers to be called, rose up in defence of SCD, saying it was a peculiar Black Race problem, which deserved to be tackled by all Africans irrespective of their genotype.

Anyone who encountered Iya in the street in her Aso Oke would be forgiven for assuming she was going to or returning from a festive occasion such as a wedding, naming ceremony or burial. Her friends had told her repeatedly that Aso Oke was only worn on special days, but such is her love of Aso Oke that she wears them every day. Iya's entire wardrobe comprises only Aso Oke!

You might put that down to the eccentricities of age,but she has been wearing only Aso One since 1990!

When Iya, now 74, speaks English or Yoruba, you pause for a moment. You know at once she is not a native. Neither the tone nor the delivery of either language is Nigerian.

Born and bred in the United States, her given name, Michele Paul, is but a distant memory. At Oyotunji Village, South Carolina, USA, a babalawo (Ifa priest) had advised her husband to go and live in Africa.

Michele studied African History at San Francisco State University,and at the University of California,Berkeley did masters in Librarianship .

Goodbye, America

In 1978, at the age of 34, Michele packed bag and baggage and moved to Africa;her African-American husband and Junior wife came later.. She had gotten a job with the Federal ministry of Education and assigned to Federal Girls College, Ilaro. It was the perfect setting in which to raise her children, away from what she considered the decadent culture of her birthplace.

'l think being raised in America is the worst thing that could happen to a child,' Iya asserts.

English is a forbidden language in her home. She hired locals to steep her children in Yoruba language and culture. Needless to say, all Iya's children speak Yoruba fluently. And they bear Yoruba names too. For herself, she picked a combination of Swahili, and Yoruba names to answer to. Her American passport bears her African names.

'Getting my African name on my passport is my final repudiation of my slave name, Michele Paul, She submits that Her late husband, formerly Christopher Leon Williams transformed to an agbada-donning Ayantuga Olade.

The children are all back in the US and married to Yoruba spouses. Yam pounding with a traditional mortar is nothing to them!

Life in Retirement

Having retired from the College of Education, lya now is Chief Librarian at Dr. Bayo Adebowale's African Heritage and Research Library and Cultural Centre,perhaps the biggest privately-owned African Studies library in Africa, Trust her to keep away from the hustle and bustle of the urban metropolis: the library is located at Adeyipo Village, lgbo Elerin in Lagelu Local Government Area, Ibadan.

An adherent of the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science), lya says she has not taken any medication since she was 11.

'Christian Science helps me to keep healthy,' she asserts.

Politics

Iya has wormed her way into the political ring in her adopted country, particularly in southwest Nigeria. She is well known to governors and the powers that be in every notable political party. She is fast becoming a king maker herself.

Iya is also known to monarchs – and to people monarchs want to know! She has visited with and has been visited by the cream of Yoruba society including Governor Aregbesola of Osun State and Gani Adams, the Aare Ona Kakanfo (Generalissimo) of Yorubaland.

Sickle Cell

The septuagenarian is not particularly impressed with the way Africa has been handling the SCD crisis of ignorance, myth and misconception.

'Sickle Cell is predominantly an Black Race problem,' she posits, 'And Nigeria must take the lead in finding a solution.'

No Regrets

Iya has never regretted her decision to settle down in Nigeria. In 40 years, she 'very reluctantly' visited the country she dislikes only twice - in 1998 when she went to collect a poetry prize, and in 2007 when her mother was gravely ill. Her mother passed away two years later.

Iya Olade considers African culture far superior to any other and enjoins Africans to value their own history by giving meaningful African names to their children.

Thank you.

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