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Request for a citation
Dear WikiProject Yoruba - I've been cleaning up the section on Yoruba theatre in the history of theatre article. The section had remained in a vandalised state for a while. It's looking much better now, but there's one small point that remains to be taken care of. There is a quotation from Wole Soyinka for which I can't find the exact source. Here is the sentence from the article: In his essay "The Fourth Stage" (1973), Soyinka argues that "no matter how strongly African authors call for an indigenous tragic art form, they smuggle into their dramas, through the back door of formalistic and ideological predilections, typically conventional Western notions and practices of rendering historical events into tragedy." The book in which his essay appears (The Morality of Art) is previewable on Google Books, but when I search for this quotation, nothing is found. Reading through the pages that are available on the preview yields nothing either. I don't have access to the physical book. If someone has the book, or has access to it, could you please add the page number on which the quotation appears to the article? It might also be worthwhile exporting the section, or a summary of it, to Yoruba literature. Many thanks,  • DP •  {huh?} 13:00, 22 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello DP, The detail to which you refer has been looked into and rectified accordingly, thankyou for your contibutions and happy editing!


 * Otelemuyen 04:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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Hi! How many of you speak Yoruba? I have some requests for articles in Yoruba. If anyone is there, please let me know! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi please share these request on the talk page‎. Please also kindly check other things you can do to move the project forward. Thankyou in advance.


 * Otelemuyen 02:21, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Otele! By talk page, do you mean this talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Yoruba on the English Wikipedia)?

If so, there is the list of articles needing versions in Yoruba: Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 02:30, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * en:Suya
 * en:Air Nigeria
 * en:Arik Air
 * en:Bellview Airlines
 * en:Babalola Borishade
 * en:Akanu Ibiam International Airport
 * en:ADC Airlines
 * en:Nigeria Airways Flight 2120
 * en:Sosoliso Airlines
 * en:Loyola Jesuit College
 * en:Yoruba culture
 * en:Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi
 * en:Maroko, Lagos State
 * en:Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145
 * en:ADC Airlines Flight 53
 * en:Bellview Airlines Flight 210
 * en:Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (Lagos was one of the flight's destinations)
 * en:Kenya Airways Flight 431 (bound for Lagos with many Nigerians onboard)
 * en:Bimbo Odukoya
 * en:GraceLand
 * en:Eti-Osa
 * en:Agege
 * en:Karu


 * Yes,Whisper! i meant here, Wiki Yoruba is quite different to WikiProject Yoruba as the former is the platform of Wikipedia in the Yoruba Language while the later is a project created to organise all relative contents on the English Wikipedia.


 * I cant promise anything but will get in contact with the Administrators and Contributers on the Yoruba Wikipedia  with the list of articles you have suggested.


 * Frankly, the names would probably become alien to the english language thereafter e.g yo:Suya; yo:Air Nigeria should probably read something like : Suya; Ilé-iṣẹ́ Ojúòfurufú Orílẹ̀-èdè Nàìjíríà respectively e.t.c


 * Otelemuyen 03:08, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your help!
 * I posted at the Yoruba project of the English Wikipedia since I figured that some people here may also be familiar with the Yoruba Wikipedia
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 03:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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