Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde

Bidemi Ologunde, PhD, CICA

Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde is a thought-provoking podcast that uses timeless Yoruba proverbs to interpret today’s world. Each episode connects contemporary events to Yoruba cultural perspectives, exploring values, norms, traditions, and everyday wisdom. Through stories, explanations, and real-life examples, host Bidemi Ologunde promotes the Yoruba language, highlights its richness and relevance, and invites listeners—whether fluent speakers or curious learners—to reflect, learn, and proudly preserve Yoruba heritage.

  1. AI and the Yoruba Language

    12/13/2025

    AI and the Yoruba Language

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde follows the Yoruba language across continents: from Nigeria to Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean, the U.K., and the U.S., and asks what happens when AI enters the story circle. Can a “virtual council of elders” help preserve òwe (proverbs), tone, and tradition in diaspora homes? What do we gain when technology records folktales, builds Yoruba chatbots, and supports heritage learners? What might we lose if screens replace living mentorship? How can families use AI to strengthen intergenerational transmission instead of outsourcing it? And what can Yoruba learn from other global languages working to survive and thrive in the digital age? Support the show

    35 min
  2. Yoruba Cosmology and the UFO Question

    11/08/2025

    Yoruba Cosmology and the UFO Question

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde traces how Yoruba cosmology understands contact with “sky beings”—from Ọ̀run and Ayé, Odùduwà’s chain, Ọ̀ṣun’s skyward journey, and Ṣàngó’s thunderstones to folk accounts of night-flying àjẹ́—then connects those themes to contemporary UFO/alien talk. He explores how these ideas traveled through the Atlantic slave trade and live on in the diaspora (Cuba’s Lukumí/Santería, Brazil’s Candomblé, in Haiti, Trinidad, and beyond), including spiritist currents that speak of otherworldly guides. Along the way, Bidemi highlights how Ifá verses, proverbs, and Egúngún traditions frame “visitation” as ancestral or divine rather than extraterrestrial—and how modern Yoruba communities sometimes bridge both lenses. A concise, story-rich look at continuity, adaptation, and why Yoruba thought treats the boundary between worlds as porous. Support the show

    23 min

  3. 09/16/2023

    72. Oju baba ara; awon bi oju; asoro da bi agba

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed five Yoruba proverbs. Support the show

    18 min

  4. 09/02/2023

    71. Ohun ti ko to okoo ki i je agba niya

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed five Yoruba proverbs. Support the show

    12 min

  5. 08/19/2023

    70. Ofin ni yo so ara e; iyawo ti nna omo iyale

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed five Yoruba proverbs. Support the show

    13 min

  6. 08/05/2023

    69. O ye eni gbogbo ko so pe isu o jina, ko ye alubata

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed five Yoruba proverbs. Support the show

    14 min

  7. 07/29/2023

    68. "O ru ládugbó ò nrerá; kí ni ká so féni tó ru Òrìsà-a Yemoja?"

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed the following Yoruba proverbs: ó di ojó alé k’ábuké tó mò pé iké kì í somo. O kò mo èwà lónje à-je-sùn. ò nje àgbònrín èsín lóbè, o ní o ti tó tán.O ru ládugbó ò nrerá; kí ni ká so féni tó ru òrìsà-a Yemoja?Support the show

    13 min

  8. 07/15/2023

    67. "Ó bó lówó iyò, ó dòbu."

    In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed the following Yoruba proverbs: Nígbàtí à nto okà a ò to ti emó si. Nígbàtí o mò-ó gùn, esin e-e se sé orókún?Nígbàwo làpò ekùn-ún di ìkálá fómode? ó bó lówó iyò, ó dòbu. O dájú dánu, o ò mo èsán mèsán-án. Support the show

    24 min
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Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde is a thought-provoking podcast that uses timeless Yoruba proverbs to interpret today’s world. Each episode connects contemporary events to Yoruba cultural perspectives, exploring values, norms, traditions, and everyday wisdom. Through stories, explanations, and real-life examples, host Bidemi Ologunde promotes the Yoruba language, highlights its richness and relevance, and invites listeners—whether fluent speakers or curious learners—to reflect, learn, and proudly preserve Yoruba heritage.

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  • Creator
    Bidemi Ologunde, PhD, CICA
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde
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