Yoruba

If you were born in, say, Europe, you will most likely be speaking with the accent of an European.

Are we together now? There are people who were born in the north and it didn't matter if they were Yoruba or Igbo or Hausa because of the environmental conditioning.

Some of them would speak northern languages with such fluency.

There are people who are northern born who speak Yoruba even more than those who are born from the west.

So our environment condition us and it's important for us to know this.

Listen to me.

Because for you to qualify as nation means you have common heritage, common history, and you also speak the same language.

So you have Yoruba nation, you have Igbo nation.

Are you getting what I'm saying? So the correct translation, if you're going to understand what he's saying, is go therefore and make disciples.

That word disciples is matetes or matachou.

It's our language.

um we should speak our language so yes you know i would understand when people sort of do like sort of have an issue with the whole code mixing and say hey if you want to speak english speak english if you want to speak pigeon speak pigeon don't mix it up but i mean sometimes you see there are some messages that you cannot pass across in english let's not like you know you know how some pastors will be preaching and they they just like they just say things like let me i want to say something but let me say it in Yoruba or let me say it in this language or let me say it in Pidgin because they know that they almost cannot pass the message across with the exact you know bites it's not the same it's really not the same you know um so so they just believe that you know what i don't think that i can um i can pass this message across properly unless i say it in social language whatever language is yeah so Nigerian languages are beautiful.

Nigerian languages are absolutely beautiful.

I was listening to someone speak in Yoruba sometime.

I'm not the best Yoruba speaker.

I was listening to someone speaking in Yoruba, and the person said something.

I can't remember what the person said.

It was so beautiful.

by Idina Siru.

All the years what I have developed was mostly locally consumed, either in the local language of Hausa or maybe Yoruba or Igbo.

Now I'm having my content aired to a larger audience in the UK and beyond, so it's really an incredible feeling and I'm looking forward to it.

It's wonderful to hear the artistry implicit in everybody who was involved, everybody who was in the room, who brought it to life.

So most of it is provided by their local people.

So we are running, so more or less, most of our programs are provided in English, French, Swahili, Bambara, Yoruba, Hausa and Twi and Creole.

And Mandinka and Wolof is two languages that are produced in the Gambia, that they produce the programs in their local languages.

And most of their, I would say more or less, yes, all of their programs are broadcasted in their local channels, which is the Gambian channel, MTA Gambia channel.

It's a very similar outlook.

Whereas if they are countries where they have their local languages, such as Sulio and has Creole, they produce maybe one or two series in that and they will supply us with that and we will run it on the channels, MTA 4 and 5.

So same as Ghana will have Twi, Nigeria, Ghana will have Twi, Hausa, Yoruba.

They will provide, of course, in their local languages.