- Author(s): Diipo Fagunwa (PhD in View)
- Volume 11, No 1, 2023
This is a paper on Yorùbá education or the indigenous education of the Yorùbá speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It highlights the form and complex character of Yorùbá education and stresses its values as an education system that is non-compartmentalised, integrated, continuing and cradle to grave. The paper traces the history of Yorùbá education in the last two hundred years to date, highlighting that it has witnessed various epochs and influences including Islamic and Christian interventions, trade and commerce, internecine wars, slave trade, colonialism, independence, military rule and civilian rule with it social problems. It identifies in Yorùbá education an emerging trend of evolving Euro-Yorùbá education with attending successes, problems and needs and gives
recommendations on how Yorùbá education can be useful to modern-day society.