Toyin Falola and Michael Oladejo Afolayan, eds., Selected Works of Chief Isaac O. Delano On Yoruba Language
Abiodun Gbada
May I draw your attention to this new 2020 book from Pan-African University Press, titled Selected Works of Chief Isaac O. Delano On Yoruba Language. This book is an anthology of four of the major language-related works of Chief Isaac Oluwole Delano, constituting his pivotal contribution to the Yoruba language and, in a way, to its literature. This is a feat that places Delano over and above his contemporaries in the pioneering efforts at defining Yoruba Studies. With this anthology, comprising four books, A Modern Yoruba Grammar; Agbekala Oro Yoruba: Appropriate Words and expressions in Yoruba; Conversation in Yoruba and English; and Atumo Ede Yoruba. The anthology makes Delano’s body of work accessible to both an older and new generations of students, learners, and language lovers. Language plays an indisputable role in the understanding, interpretation, and deciphering and decoding Yoruba cultural values and beliefs that are obscured in proverbs, sayings, conversations, unique grammatical structure, and their family system, gender equity, and democratic political culture and communal philosophy. Toyin Falola and Michael O. Afolayan have, in a manner of speech, excavated and brought to life the buried works and life of Chief Delano for us all to enjoy and learn from.
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