Al-Hikmah University Journal

This paper explores the usage of social media for teaching Yorùbá language in Nigerian higher institutions Social-media as a cultural medium is also seen as a veritable platform to display Yorùbá oral poetry. Language is an integral part of culture. Language policy in Nigeria was partly aimed at assigning roles to the major languages (Hausa, Igbo and Yorùbá) so as to curb the excess dominance of English over them. As history is important to a nation, indigenous language is sine quo non to Yorùbá cultural values. The objective of this study is to determine the major obstacles bedeviled with teaching of Yorùbá language with social media. The challenge of this study hinged on attitude of Yorùbá Teachers to adopt social medial platform as a means of teaching Yorùbá language in higher education during covid-19 era. The study concludes that Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube are social media platform for teaching Yorùbá language in Nigerian higher education in new normal. Therefore, the study recommended among others that authorities of higher education should organise training, Seminars, workshops, colloquium, and symposiums on the usage social media for teaching Yorùbá language.