I was at home yesterday and I heard a noise emanating from my neighbour's room, I discovered it was baba rasheed beating his son again for speaking in yoruba language. This is the same man who just change the school of his son to a new school because they taught yoruba. The son now attends a school where they teach more of English Language and forbid their students from speaking and writing in Yoruba language.

Today, 40% of most children from Yoruba homes cannot speak their indigenous dialect fluently, while the remaining 60% cannot even read and write in our mother tongue. To make matters worse, the few that can speak and write in Yoruba language are now classified with derogative words like unbrilliant, unbred, uncivilized, illiterate, etc.

In consequence, Yoruba children nowadays are no longer comfortable speaking their indigenous dialect publicly, as many of them even regard it as vernacular and this dilemma are all in the name of civilization, urbanization and modernization.

The above scenario that occur in my neighbour room also exist in most Yoruba home across the world. Our parents and guardians are now the agent of westernization, they prefer to communicate with their children in English language and indirectly encourage them to embrace western values, culture, traditions, etc at the detriment of our own indigenous cultural system.

_Good morning_

Mc4larin:
I was at home yesterday and I heard a noise emanating from my neighbour's room, I discovered it was baba rasheed beating his son again for speaking in yoruba language. This is the same man who just change the school of his son to a new school because they taught yoruba. The son now attends a school where they teach more of English Language and forbid their students from speaking and writing in Yoruba language.

Today, 40% of most children from Yoruba homes cannot speak their indigenous dialect fluently, while the remaining 60% cannot even read and write in our mother tongue. To make matters worse, the few that can speak and write in Yoruba language are now classified with derogative words like unbrilliant, unbred, uncivilized, illiterate, etc.

In consequence, Yoruba children nowadays are no longer comfortable speaking their indigenous dialect publicly, as many of them even regard it as vernacular and this dilemma are all in the name of civilization, urbanization and modernization.

The above scenario that occur in my neighbour room also exist in most Yoruba home across the world. Our parents and guardians are now the agent of westernization, they prefer to communicate with their children in English language and indirectly encourage them to embrace western values, culture, traditions, etc at the detriment of our own indigenous cultural system.

_Good morning_

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If you had said 20% maybe it woud have been more believable... but even that would still be a bit over the top.
more like 15%, and Mostly In Lagos.