About Us

The Yoruba Cultural Heritage Centre {YCHC} is a non-profit and non-government organization, that support the activities of volunteers – cultural entrepreneurs, artists, teachers, dancers, arts, theatre and groups. We are dedicated to providing Yoruba language learning and cultural programmes of the highest quality to our diverse community of children, teens and adults alike.

We have created a dynamic cultural organization that would be established in major cities in Nigeria and worldwide. The YCHC centre preserve and promote Yoruba cultural heritage, educate the public about our local history and organize Yoruba cultural lives worldwide.

We hunt for talents in all facets of creative expressions. We honour and respect the creativity and diversity of Yoruba tradition and cultural heritage. We also raise, invests and distribute funds for the benefit of the Yoruba language learning, culture, customs and community.

We organize different cultural events all year round, music, concerts, performances, promote Yoruba musicians, artists, dance and theatre. We promote and attend annual cultural festivals in Yoruba town and villages. We ensure cultural participation for all Yoruba groups of the society in voluntary creative arts expression.

We earnestly scout and collect historical, ancient and modern stories from local inhabitants of our towns and villages, support community development, give scholarships, grants to Yoruba indigent students, artists and talented up coming musicians. We work with local community, build its identity and pride and thus create local social capital.

Yoruba Cultural Heritage Centre {YCHC} teach Yoruba language for every age group from absolute beginners to bilingual speakers with a large variety of subjects and material that can be arranged to group classes and private tuition. These are general Yoruba courses, conversation classes and cultural workshops.

We are committed to supporting and implementing international exchange programmes, community outreach programmes, national and international excursions.

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