Following the frightening decline in the use of Yoruba Language as a means of communication in Southwest, the Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Monisade Afuye has tasked state governments and traditional rulers in the zone to strive and prevent the language from sliding into extinction.
Mrs Afuye lamented how the modernity brought by Western education has gained traction and wider acceptability in the Southwest and eroded the Yoruba Language among the younger generation.
She described the situation as a dangerous trend that must be halted by stakeholders.
The Deputy Governor spoke at the palace of Ewi of Ado Ekiti, Oba Adeyemo Adejugbe, on Tuesday, during an award conferment on Eyesorun Abosede Adejugbe by Egbe Akomolede ati Asa Yobuba Worldwide, to commemorate the Yoruba Day 2023.
Mrs Afuye, in a statement by her Special Assistant Media, Victor Ogunje, on Monday, described the Yoruba Language as priceless and riddled with wisdom and knowledge that can equip people’s mental capacity, if well applied, saying such a language shouldn’t be allowed to die.
She bemoaned the gradual fading of the language as means of communication among the Yorubas and other nations that have historical affinities with the race under the facade of Western education, saying efforts must be intensified by stakeholders in the region to arrest the drift
