Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osibajo sets plan in motion to set up first Yoruba World Centre at the University of Ibadan on the 23rd of November.
The announcement was made known by Shola Oshunkeye, director of media and publicity of the International Centre for Yoruba Arts And Culture (INCEYAC).
The vice-president will be accompanied at the ceremony by south-west governors, including Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, and Lamidi Adeyemi, the Alaafin of Oyo, according to Oshunkeye.
The three-in-one event, he added, will include the opening of the Yoruba World Centre’s temporary habitation, the screening of a comprehensive documentary on the Yoruba World Centre, and the vice-laying president’s of the first foundation at the permanent site.
The center will contain a standard library, an archive, a museum, a recreation, reconstruction, and digital center, as well as a broadcasting and film village and an artificial forest, according to Oshunkeye (zoo).
Alao Adedayo, a member of INCEYAC’s board of trustees, also spoke at the event, stating that the centre will serve as a one-stop-shop for anyone interested in Yoruba history, arts, and culture, as well as instruments for nation-building, national cohesion, and mutual understanding.
The concept was motivated by the fact that there is now no one institution holding materials to promote study into the Yoruba people’s history, arts, and culture, according to Adedayo, who is also the publisher of Alaroye Newspaper.
“As the world’s largest user of Yoruba (in print) today, and as a result of our everyday encounters with the language,
“In addition to providing a good ambience for researchers, the Yoruba World Centre, as a knowledge centre, will help Nigeria and Nigerians in the onerous task of nation-building.”
Adedayo enjoined all Yorubas at home and in the diaspora to support the centre.
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