Dr. Fayemi Fakayode, a traditionalist, has encouraged the federal government to incorporate Traditional Religious Knowledge in the school curriculum so that it can be taught as a topic and pass on Yoruba culture and traditions to future generations.
He stated that adequate education is required to dispel myths about Yoruba history and antecedents among children and youths.
Fakayode claimed that Africans’ miseducation about their origins and culture resulted in wrong conceptions of their traditional religion.
At the installation of two Brazilians, Awoyomi Fakayode and Iyanifa Ifatayo Obemo, as the Mayegun and Yeye Mayegun of Ijọ Imole Olodumare Agbaye, Fakayode, who is also the secretary, Traditional Religion Worshippers’ Association (TRWA), Oyo State branch and founder, Olodumare’s Temple of Light International, at Alade Town, said the step would protect Yoruba culture from extinction.
He stated that it is past time for the state and federal governments to integrate Traditional Religious Knowledge as a subject in basic and secondary school curricula, just as Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge have been.
He went on to say, “There is the need for proper education to impart to the younger generations, the needed knowledge of our tradition and religion.”