Olabiyi Babalola Yai Quotes

1939–2020

Olabiyi Babalola Yai (1939 – 2020) was a Beninese-Yoruba philosopher, linguist, literary scholar and diplomat. He was a leading scholar of African oral literature, Yoruba studies and African intellectual traditions.

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"Tradition is not opposed to creativity; tradition is the condition for creativity."

"Decolonization without a linguistic turn is like drinking sugar without tea."

"African languages are repositories of second order thinking."

"Oral literature is not a lesser form of literature."

African Oral Poetry Criticism: Some Epistemological and Methodological Considerations (1994)

"The study of Africa must begin from African categories of thought."

Decolonization without a linguistic turn is like drinking sugar without tea (2021)

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