Free Beginner Yorùbá Classes Resume This September
Registration opens for our Saturday morning classes — open to children, adults and complete beginners, online and in Ìbàdàn.
Read More →Articles & News — Adéàbẹ̀kẹ́ Fábọ́lá
Essays, research notes and announcements from around AFECO.
Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́: When Our Mothers Speak Through the Mask
Every performance of Gẹ̀lẹ̀dẹ́ honours the spiritual power of women — especially elderly mothers whose blessings and warnings shape community life.
Read More →Our Digital Archive of Early Yorùbá Newspapers Is Now Online
More than four thousand scanned pages — from Ìwé Ìròyìn (1859) onward — are now searchable, free, for students and researchers everywhere.
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Five Yorùbá Proverbs Every Learner Should Know
Òwe lẹṣin ọ̀rọ̀ — proverbs are the horses of speech. Here are five favourites, with meanings, to carry your Yorùbá further.
Read More →New Release: “Kíkọ Àti Kíka Èdè Yorùbá” — Second Edition
Our best-selling beginner reader returns with new chapters on tone practice, modern vocabulary and classroom exercises.
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Adirẹ: Cloth That Remembers
Indigo resist-dyed cloth once carried messages of status, belief and belonging across Yorùbá towns — and a new generation of dyers is writing fresh…
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AFECO Marks Mother Language Day with Schools Festival
Over twenty schools gathered for debates, drama and poetry — all in Yorùbá — celebrating UNESCO’s Mother Language Day.
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Ifá Literature Holds Lessons for Today’s World
From farming seasons to conflict resolution, the odù Ifá verses encode centuries of ecological and social intelligence.
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