Yoruba world center: Osinbajo, monarchs set to attend inauguration

The Yoruba World Centre will be having a sod-turning ceremony scheduled for November 23 with the Vice President and monarchs in attendance.

The Yoruba World Center’s purpose is to serve as one-stop-shop for Yoruba history, culture and language enthusiasts.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi; and the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, will be present at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Yoruba World Centre at the University of Ibadan.

The event is put together by the International Centre for Yoruba Arts and Culture, the Institute of African Studies, and the Yoruba Language Centre of the University of Ibadan, Oyo State.

A member of the Board of Trustees, INCEYAC, Mr Alao Adedayo, in a statement on Monday, said the occasion would feature the opening of the centre’s temporary base and a documentary about it.

He said, “The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will on November 23, 2021 turn the first sod of the Yoruba World Centre inside the University of Ibadan. He will be joined by the Ooni of Ife and eminent Yoruba leaders, under the chairmanship of the Alaafin of Oyo.”

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Adedayo added that the centre on completion would have a library, museum and film village to preserve Yoruba history and art.

“The World Yoruba Centre when completed will have a big library, an archive, a museum, a recreation centre, reconstruction and digitising centre as well as broadcasting and film village.

“The purpose of this is to make the centre serve as a one-stop-shop, offering old, new, recreated and reconstructed materials for researchers, lecturers, students, authors, journalists, historians and members of the public interested in Yoruba history, arts and culture as a tool for nation-building, national cohesiveness and mutual understanding,” he said.