Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi Ologunde

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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 historical scenes and modern anecdotes, this episode shows how ancient Yoruba wisdom still explains leadership, wealth, status, and character today.

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

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

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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 across continents. What do remittances really represent: love, duty, or pressure? How do returnees fit back into a place that has changed without them? What happens when children raised abroad inherit Yorùbá identity through accents, proverbs, screens, and memory? This episode reflects on migration, accent shame, raising children overseas, and the evolving meaning of home for Yorùbás everywhere.

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

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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 algorithms, attention, and performance? How do we recognize when confidence is fake expertise, when influence becomes cruelty, or when online success is only a staged illusion? And in an age of constant posting, dragging, and flexing, what does true Omolúàbí character look like online?

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

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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 ambition turn into pressure, and pressure into compromise? Why do fraud glamour and status display appeal to so many people, and what is the difference between prosperity and a good name? This episode invites listeners to think deeply about what real success costs, and what should never be traded for it.

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

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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 preserve òwe (proverbs), tone, and tradition in diaspora homes? What do we gain when technology records folktales, builds Yoruba chatbots, and supports heritage learners? What might we lose if screens replace living mentorship? How can families use AI to strengthen intergenerational transmission instead of outsourcing it? And what can Yoruba learn from other global languages working to survive and thrive in the digital age?