This book provides four of the major language-related works of Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano. They
\nconstitute the masterpiece of his pivotal contribution to the Yoruba language and, in a way, to its
\nliterature, a feat that places Delano over and above his contemporaries in the pioneering efforts of
\nintellection on the broad field of Yoruba studies. With this anthology, comprising of four books, A
\nModern Yoruba Grammar; Agbeka Oro Yoruba: Appropriate words and expressions in
\nYoruba; Conversation in Yoruba and English; and Atumo Ede Yoruba, we showcase and bring to the
\nclose range of students, teachers, scholars and other beneficiaries of Yoruba, a lifetime
\nachievement of a mega-lover of the Yoruba language, culture and literature. This document, in
\nexcess of 900 pages, is a valuable \u201cmobile library\u201d so much needed in an age when indigenous
\nknowledge bases are endangered and the potential beneficiaries of such knowledges are the first
\nto run away from them.<\/p>\n
Michael Oladejo Afol\u00e1yan, Ph.D., a former student of Chief Isaac O. Delano, is currently an
\nIndependent Scholar, and a retired professor from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He
\nalso retired from the directorate of Illinois Board of Higher Education’s Academic Affairs Division,
\nIllinois, USA. Afol\u00e1yan is the current co-founder and President of M & P Educational Consulting
\nInternational. As an eclectic scholar with backgrounds in Yoruba language, linguistics, education,
\nand literary analysis, he draws from a rich pool of multidisciplinary scholarship to investigate and
\ninterrogate theoretical, philosophical and pragmatic ideas. He embraces a lifelong studentship of
\ncultural knowledge and intellectual curiosity. Educated earlier in life in the organic indigenous
\nYoruba epistemology (at the feet of village elders), and later in life at three Western citadels of
\nlearning \u2013 University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Nigeria; the University of
\nWisconsin-Madison, and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Afol\u00e1yan has authored and
\nco-authored many journal articles, book chapters, and books. He is the author of a memoir, Fate of
\nOur Mothers: The Collected Stories of An African Village Boy and currently he is co-authoring a
\ntranslation of Joseph Odumosu’s (1895) Iwe Iwosan.<\/p>\n
Toyin Falola is a historian of the Yoruba and Nigeria, founder and co-editor of Yoruba Studies
\nReview. He has produced over 160 books, and honored globally \u2014including seven honorary
\ndoctorates\u2014 for his scholarship and service. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor
\nand Frances and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University Of Texas at Austin.
\nThe works and life of Chief Isaac Delano underscored his invaluable conviction that language is
\nthe software for the creation and development, processing, storage, retrieval, and for the
\npreservation and use of culture. The Yoruba say, Ibadan l’omo, o mo layipo, and Delano’s
\ncompendium of Yoruba language, history and anthropological chronicles is also a signifier to
\nknowing the “layipo” of the Yoruba people. Language plays an indisputable role for the
\nunderstanding, interpretation and deciphering and decoding of the Yoruba cultural values and
\nbeliefs that are obscured in proverbs, sayings and conversations, unique grammatical structure,
\nand their family system, gender equity, and democratic political culture and communal
\nphilosophy but not communist governance and governmentality.<\/p>\n
Toyin Falola and Michael O. Afolayan have in a manner of speech archaeologically excavated or exhumed and brought alive the erstwhile buried works and life of Chief Delano for us all to enjoy and learn from. I commend this must-read encyclopedic work to students of language in general and to decolonization of the Yoruba mindset and to posterity for the preservation of the endangered Yoruba language, cultural values and beliefs.<\/p>\n
-Bola Dauda, author of Life Begins at 70! and the co-author of Decolonizing Nigeria 1945-1960<\/p>\n
ISBN: 978-1-943533-47-3 \u0399 Published 2020 \u0399 Pan-African University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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