The Secretary of Traditional Religion Worshippers’ Association (TRWA), Oyo State branch and Founder, Olodumare’s Temple of Light International, at Alade Town, Ibadan, Dr Fayemi Fakayode, has called for the establishment of schools where Traditional Religious Knowledge (TRK) will be taught as a subject to impart the younger generation with the Yoruba culture and tradition.
Fakayode gave the advice during the installation of two Brazilians, Awoyomi Fakayode and Iyanifa Ifatayo Obemo, as the Mayegun and Yeye Mayegun of ÌjọÌmọ́lẹ̀ Olodumare Agbaye.
He stressed the need for proper education to disabuse the minds of younger children about Yoruba history and antecedent, saying that the miseducating of Africans about their origin and culture led to many wrong perceptions about their traditional religion.
He added that the federal and state governments should include TRK as a subject in primary and secondary schools’ curriculum, like they have the Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge.
“There is the need for proper education to impart in the younger generations the needed knowledge of our tradition and religion.
“Also, there is a need to equip the younger generations with cultural-based knowledge that will make them useful for themselves and their land as well as implanting in them the spirit of patriotism that will make them unyielding to the spirit of betraying their ancestors.”
“We call on the traditionalists to start making efforts to establish this subject in our primary and secondary schools, while the federal and state governments will give it the needed support by approving its inclusion in the schools’ syllabus and curriculum.
“With this in place, our children and grandchildren will not be taught about their own religion, culture, tradition and history by foreigners and those from other religions, who have painted our own religion in a bad light, so as to lure our children away,” he maintained.
