What Odeluwa thinks about not knowing your language.

She understands the significance of language and its influence on perspective and thought processes.

It was even longer than this. I captured it late. She spoke on your language being your identity in a detailed way

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When you travel to core Asia where most of Africans there are Igbo then you will understand. I mean business and every single trade are done in Igbo. Because of the nature of this country, we don’t even speak English. I learnt the deep Igbo I never heard in my life while in Asia.

My dad told me the same thing lol. That in Asia a lot of Igbo people speak Igbo there.

I really hope this post blows up. I've always heard questions like, “Of what benefit is knowing how to speak Igbo?” or “Will the Yoruba language take you places?” People forget that language isn’t just about economic gain or what it can offer. Your children will

Right! Someone asked me why I wanted to learn my own language so bad and what was i planning to do with it. My own language! My identity!

I hate that her team hasn't made the effort to curate all her speeches and events into one YouTube channel. Most of her speeches abroad can be found on the channels of the institutions, but then her culture rich speeches in Nigeria aren't always recorded

They actually had a video on her speeches yesterday. It’s probably still getting edited

I remembered telling someone that kids that don’t speak/understand their language tend to have identity issues Like they don’t know where to fit in

learn your language, very important. learn different igbo dialects if you have to