Jápa: Migration, Home, and the New Yorùbá Identity
Yoruba Proverbs with Bidemi OlogundePlay episode
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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 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.
