Segilola Publishing: 6 books

How To Tell The Time On A Clock In Yoruba by Segilola Salami is a useful guide in teaching children how to tell the time on the clock in Yoruba. Each page has a colourful face of the clock followed by the time in both Yoruba and English. The clock face shows the time from one o’clock to twelve...

Like the other books by Segilola Salami, this book was written as a game to foster bonding between adult and child. The book starts off with colours and their names in both Yoruba and English. In the subsequent pages, the adult points to a colour and asks the child “what colour is this?” The child has to give the answer in both Yoruba and English.

Yetunde is a series of stories that follows the every day life of 6 month old Yetunde as she's narrated African folktales by her mom Iya Yetunde whilst growing up in London. Iya Yetunde also tries to improve her Yoruba speaking ability, so we see a nice mish mash of Yoruba and English. The folktales...

Yetunde: An Ode to My Mother is a stand alone book from Yetunde: The Life and Times of a Yoruba Girl in London (1). You may think of it as book 1.5, as in this book Yetunde is slightly older.   It is a heart-warming story about the power of a mother's love; truly an ode to women and...

She was called an Abiku, an evil spirit sent to this world to lure men to their doom Dayo is a bi-racial twenty something year old with a German mom and a Nigerian dad. She has a semi bougie lifestyle, always jetting across the pond between Africa and Europe. She starts dating her father’s...

Death is wicked . . .Follow Yetunde as she narrates her mother's ode to her grandmother. It is the Yoruba praise poetry for a mother known as Oriki IyaThis is a short story dedicated to past, present and future mothers.A perfect mother's day presentThe book is mostly in English and any Yoruba words are translated, so everyone can enjoy the book fully