Yoruba Flashcards
My first paid job was in the publishing industry. To be precise, I spent a year as the youngest intern at the then popular but now defunct CLASSIQUE MAGAZINE published by the late May Ellen Ezekiel in the eighties in Lagos, Nigeria.    The experience was priceless and I still don t understand how I got a short fiction story published then despite what must have been an amateurish first attempt. With all my love for the written word, I went on to a career in medicine because it was what I felt a career should be.     I am still a practising Physician and enjoy the Art and Science of healing and caring (Don t know if one can stop being one with a society that is obsessed with titles and the special privileges that come with it) but books have opened the world to me in a way that the study of the human body and its mysteries could never have done.  I have written a lot of materials that are best left unpublished and this attempt has been solely inspired by my daughter who is serving as my current experiment and proof that you can embrace your indigenous language and still have a good command of several other languages especially English.    A mind that has not been exposed to the joys of travelling through the words of a book is at best a mind that is undeveloped in many different ways. I travelled to many places in the world, experienced their culture and immersed myself in their food and culture through the pages of a book. An actual visit to some of these places later on only confirmed what I had already lived through.    Why Languages?     The Limits of my language mean the limits of my world writes Ludwig Wittgenstein. I constantly worry about the deliberate and conscious attempt by my generation to make extinct our indigenous languages in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. I decided to do something about it and the effort is what you see in the African languages Made Easy Series! and the African Phonics Cards Series .  My hope is that I infect as many people as possible with this raging passion.    O di gba.