Abstract
Nigeria in the last three decades has had to grapple with the perennial problem of unemployment. This is not uncommon among developing nations considering the legacy bequeathed by the colonial masters. The widespread exploitation and misadventure in the African continent, defective political structure and the political elites that continued the exploitative tendencies of their masters remain a sad commentary. It is on this premise that this study intends to interrogate the problem of unemployment from within. The literary theory is pluriversalism while the teaching learning theory adopted was the behaviouralist approach. A noteworthy realisation is that Orature is the verbal artistic product that encapsulates the sensibility and knowledge production of the African world view that shows that native intelligence can positively contribute to national development. The study concludes that Orature, if properly deployed could be a plausible solution to unemployment particularly among the Yoruba youths in Nigeria.
Highlights
Yoruba is the language of the Yoruba people who are predominantly settled in south- western Nigeria, the nation which has most populated black people in the world
A noteworthy realisation is that Orature is the verbal artistic product that encapsulates the sensibility and knowledge production of the African world view that shows that native intelligence can positively contribute to national development
The study concludes that Orature, if properly deployed could be a plausible solution to unemployment among the Yoruba youths in Nigeria
Summary
Yoruba is the language of the Yoruba people who are predominantly settled in south- western Nigeria, the nation which has most populated black people in the world. It is one of the three major languages in the midst of Nigerians’ four hundred languages. Yoruba is used as medium of instruction at Yoruba native speaking schools and study as a school subject up to University degree level. It is a language with codified orthography. Yoruba have family praise poetry and other traditional renditions for merriments and festive gatherings. This study centres on training the Yoruba youths on the utilization of their numerous family traditional verbal arts as source of livelihood in the recent period of unemployment
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