The Federal Government of Brazil has decided to recognise Yoruba as an official (foreign) language spoken in the country.
Last weekend, during the fourth edition of the National meetings of the African-Brazilian storytellers, Yoruba culture was celebrated at the region of Quilombola, where many of the early Yoruba victims of the slave trade and their descendants have been located since the 13th century.
The Brazilian Minister of Culture, Dr Sergio Sa Leitao, at the weekend said that the government has introduced the compulsory study of African History and Yoruba language into the primary......


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Yoruba amaka... one love.. one country.. Nigeria will be great again

thats a good development. the yorubas as well as hausas value their language a lot and can do anything to preserve it unlike most of our people in the south-east who forbid their children from speaking igbo, these set of people ignorantly equate speaking english with being intelligent