Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores five Yoruba proverbs about reputation, courage, borrowing, unemployment, and honor. What happens when public disgrace only reveals private neglect? Why do some people confront the weak while avoiding their equals? When does borrowing become a costume rather than support? Through historical context and modern anecdotes,...

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores five Yoruba proverbs about limitation, empathy, responsible speech, credibility, and reputation. What happens when a small weakness disrupts a powerful system? Who suffers quietly while others continue as though nothing has happened? How should elders, leaders, parents, and professionals speak when their words carry pub...

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores five Yoruba proverbs about restraint, humility, equality, sudden wealth, and personal responsibility. What does it mean for the owner of the land to tread gently? Why should status give way to necessity during difficult moments? How do we tell the difference between surface resemblance and real equality? Through histori...

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores five Yoruba proverbs about greed, wisdom, human limitation, interdependence, and the revealing nature of sudden success. Why does an elder lose dignity when appetite overpowers restraint? Why does privilege sometimes create even more hunger? What happens when intelligent people forget the limits of knowledge? Through hi...

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde 's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores the contemporary concept of "Jápa" in terms of migration, home, and the new Yorùbá identity, asking what it means to leave, what it costs to stay, and how Yorùbá families are redefining home acros...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores a timely conversation about clout, narcissism, gossip, fake expertise, fake displays of wealth, cyberbullying, and digital self-control. What does it mean to carry Yoruba values into a world ruled by algori...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores the tension between the "soft life" ideal and the hard choices people make around money, hustle culture, image, debt, and integrity. What happens when success becomes a performance? When does ambi...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com 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 prese...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com 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, t...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde 's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores what Jagun Jagun (a 2023 Netflix film) reveals about power, honor, fear, and Yoruba memory. Why do some leaders inspire loyalty while others only command obedience? What is the difference between being fear...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explores a timely question for Yoruba language and culture in the digital age: can artificial intelligence truly preserve òwe , or can it only imitate their form? What happens when proverbs are separated from elders...

Check out host Bidemi Ologunde 's new show: The Work Ethic Podcast , available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . Email: bidemiologunde@gmail.com Sponsors and partners: Promeed : 100% mulberry silk pillowcases and bedding that feel incredibly soft, stay breathable, and are naturally gentle on hair and skin. SurviveX : professional-grade FSA/HSA eligible first aid and preparedness kits designed i...

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

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

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

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

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?

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. 

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed the following Yoruba proverbs: “Mo mòwòn ara-à mi” kì í sèrèké èébú.  “Mo yó” njé “mo yó,” “mo kò” njé “mo kò;” jeun nisó, àgbà òkánjúwà ni. Ng ó gba owó-ò mi lára sòkòtò yìí; ìdí àgbàlagbà nsí sílè.  Nlánlá lomo abuké ndá; ó ní “ìyá ìyá, òun ó pòn.”  Níbo lo forúko sí tí ò njé Làmbòròkí?  For questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact the ho...