Isola O. O. Oliyide
I am an engineer. So are my father and my grandfather.
I work the way engineers do: find a problem, mine or someone else’s, and build the thing that solves it. The problems I choose most are about our people: how we learn our languages, how we play, how we gather, and how what is ours carries on.
What that has built so far
ṢoGbédè
A game show where learning our language means laughing together and winning prizes.
Watch on YouTube
The Ajo Foundation
How ORIIA gives back. Our work looks after what is ours; the foundation looks after our people. More is coming at ajofdn.org.
“To preserve the culture of a people, we must also preserve the people of that culture.”
Also: ORIIA Studios, a space for events in Forney and Dallas, Texas. oriiastudios.com
All of it is ORIIA.
One home, many roads.