Ní àfikún, àwọn Arìnrìnàjò-ẹ̀sin àti àwọn Arìnrìnàjò-ìgbafẹ́ láti Iran náà tẹ̀síwájú láti máa ṣe àbẹ̀wọ̀ sí àwọn ojúbọ ní Damascus títí di ọ̀ṣẹ̀ kíní osù ẹrénà (march) gẹ́gẹ́ bí Zaki Mechy tí ó jẹ́ ara àwọn Òǹkòwé March Study ti London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ṣe sọ.


However, the Assad regime has pursued a policy of misinformation, prevarication and denial in terms of the number of COVID-19 casualties.


Síbẹ̀, Ìṣèjọba Assad ń tẹpẹlẹ mọ́ sísọ òfegè ìròyìn àti irọ́ lórìṣirísi bẹ́ẹ̀ ni ó tún ṣe àdínkù iye àwọn ènìyàn tí wọ́n ti ní COVID-19.


In a March 13 interview with the official Syrian News Channel, Minister of Health Nizar Al-Yaziji insisted on denying the existence of any COVID-19 cases in Syria, saying:


Ní ìfọ̀rọ̀wánilẹ́nuwọ̀ pẹ̀lú ẹ̀ka ìròyìn ìjọba ilẹ̀ Syria ní ọjọ́ kẹtàlá Osù Ẹrẹ́nà, Mínísítà ètò ilera ilẹ̀ náà Nizar Al-Yaziji kọ̀jálẹ̀ lórí pé kò sí ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ COVID-19 ní ilẹ̀ Syria, ó sọ pé:


"""Thank God that the Syrian Arab Army has cleansed the Syrian soil from many germs:"""


"""A dúpé̩ ló̩wó Ọló̩run pé àwọn È̩ka Ológun ti fọ ilè̩ Syria mó kúrò ló̩wó̩ àrùnkárùn:"""


The Syrian Ministry of Health did not announce its first case of COVID-19 until March 22, causing resentment and anger among Syrians who noted that the Assad regime lied and pursued a policy of denial.


Mínísítà ètò ìlera ilè̩ Syria kò tilè̩ kéde ìṣè̩lè̩ ààrùn COVID-19 àkó̩kó̩ ilè̩ náà títí di ọjó̩ kejìlélógún Osù Ẹré̩nà (March 22), èyí si ń fa ìbínú àti ìtutọ́sókè fojú gbà á ní àárín àwọn ọmọ ilẹ̀ Syria tí wọ́n ṣe àkíyèsí pé ìṣèjọba Assad ń parọ́, ó si ń tako ìròyìn ododo.


"In an article published on an independent Syria 24 news site in response to Yaziji's claims, one citizen poignantly asked, ""didn't you say in your statement that all germs have been eliminated?"""


"Nínú ìwé àpilẹ̀kọ tí wọ́n fi sí orí ẹ̀rọ alátagbà-oníròyìn kan ní ilẹ̀ náà, ọ̀kan nínú àwọn ará ìlú fèsì sí ọ̀rọ̀ Yaziri, ó sọ pé ""ṣé o kò sọ nínú ọ̀rọ̀ rẹ tẹ́lẹ̀ pé gbogbo àrùn ni ó ti jẹ́ fífọ̀ kúrò ni"""


However, the regime has continued to report implausibly low numbers.


Síbẹ̀ náà ìṣèjọba yìí ti bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí ní sí ṣe àdíkù òǹkà iye àwọn tí wọ́n ní àrùn náà nínú àtẹ̀jáde wọn.


In a statement dated April 1, the Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces called on the international community to put pressure on the regime to disclose verified data regarding COVID-19 cases.


Nínú àtẹjáde kan tí ọjọ́ kíní osù Igbe Àjọ tí ó pè fún Àtúnṣe Ìṣejọba Syria àti àwọn Ẹgbẹ́ Alátakò késí àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè àgbáyé láti fíná mọ́ ìṣejọba ọ̀hún, pé kí wọn ó gbé òótọ́ òǹkà iye àwọn tí wọ́n ní àrùn COVID-19 jáde.


Stressing the assumed existence of a large number of casualties, the coalition wrote:


Ó gbé èrò rẹ̀ jáde lórí iye tí ó yẹ kí ó jẹ́ òótọ́, àjọ náà kọ báyìí pé:


A broken health care system


Ètò ìlera tí ó ti dẹnu kọlẹ̀


Recognizing the pandemic is embarrassing for the Assad regime because it forces authorities to admit that the health system is non-existent.


Gbígbà pé àjàkálẹ̀ ààrun yìí wà lóòótọ́ bu ìsejọba Assad kù nítorí pé òhun ni yóò jẹ́ kí àwọn aláṣe wọn ó fi tipá gbà lóòtọ́ pé wọn kò ní èka ètò ìlera.


According to the LSE study, the maximum number of COVID-19 infections that can be treated in the Syrian health sector is estimated to be only 6,500 in a nation of 17.5 million inhabitants.


Gẹ́gẹ́ bí London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ṣe sọ, àpapọ̀ iye àwọn aláàárẹ̀ COVID-19 tí wọ́n le wò ní ilẹ̀ náà kò ju ẹgbẹ̀rún mẹ́fà ààbọ̀ lọ (6500) nínú ọ̀gọ̀rọ̀ èníyán tí ó tó mílíọ̀nù mẹ́tàdínlógún àbọ̀ tí ó ń gbé ní ilẹ̀ náà.


If casualties exceed this capacity, the health system, already worn out by the war, is likely to collapse.


Ó ní bí iye àwọn aláàrẹ́ bá ti ju iye yìí lọ, ipá orílè-èdè náà ti pin nìyẹn, omi sì le tẹ̀yìn wọ̀gbín lẹ́nu.


Throughout the war, military attacks have caused widespread damage to the health sector.


Ní àsìkò ogun abélé náà, àwọn ológun ti ṣe ìkọlù tí ó lágbára sí ẹ̀ka ètò ìlera wọn.


Data from the World Health Organization and the Syrian Ministry of Health show that only 58 hospitals are fully operational among the country's 111 public hospitals.


Àkọsílẹ̀ láti ọdọ̀ Àjọ́ WHO àti Ilé-iṣẹ́ ètò ilera ilẹ̀ Syria sọ ọ́ di mímọ̀ pé méjìdínlọ́gọ́ta nìkan ni ètò iṣẹ́ rẹ̀ pé nínú ilé ìwòsàn ìjọba ọ̀kànléláàádọ́fà tí ó wà ní ilẹ̀ náà.


The data also noted that up to 70 percent of health workers have left the country as migrants or refugees, while the rest are often subjected to restrictions, including military and political interference.


Àkọsílẹ̀ yìí tún fi hàn pé ó tó ìdá àádọ́rin nínú ọgọ́rùn-ún àwọn òṣìṣẹ́ elétò ìlera ilẹ̀ náà tí wọ́n ti kúrò láti di àtìpó àti ogúnléndé sí ilẹ̀ ibòmìíràn.


COVID-19 amid ongoing humanitarian disaster


COVID-19 wà lára àjálù tí ó ń kujú ọmọnìyàn


Perhaps the biggest challenge many Syrians face is the accumulation of disasters: war, a pandemic, and famine.


Ó ṣeéṣe kí ó jẹ́ pé ohun tí ó jẹ́ ìdojúkọ àwọn ọmọ ilẹ̀ Syria jùlọ ni bí àwọn àjálù yìí ṣe rọ́ lu ara wọn; ogun, àjàkálẹ̀-àrùn àti iyàn.


"The United Nations warned on June 26 that Syria is now facing an ""unprecedented"" hunger crisis, with urgent action still needed to prevent the spread of COVID-19."


Àjọ Ìsọkan Àgbáyé ṣe ìkìlọ̀ ní ọjọ́ kẹrìndínlọ́gbọ̀n osù Okudù pé Syria ń fojú winá ebi àpafẹ́ẹ̀ẹ́kú, ìgbẹ́sẹ̀ níkíá sì nílò láti dèènà ìtànkálẹ̀ COVID-19


According to the World Food Program, food prices rose by 11 percent in May compared to April, and 133 percent when compared to the same period in 2019.


Gẹ́gẹ́ bí Àjọ Elétò Ounjẹ Àgbááyé ṣe sọ, òwọ́ngọ́gọ́ bá ounjẹ pẹ̀lú ìdá mọ́kànlá iye rẹ̀ tẹ́lẹ̀ ní oṣù Èbìbí yàtọ̀ sí ti oṣù Igbe, ó sì wọ́n sí i ní ìwọ̀n mẹ́tàléláàádóje nígbà tí wọ́n gbé e wò sí ti ọdun 2019.


"As the economic situation deteriorates, 28-year-old Ali al-Ahmed (also a pseudonym upon request to protect his identity) from Daraa city told Global Voices in a phone interview that ""the situation is bad, regardless of how much you work, even if you make 10,000 SYP a day [between $1 and $5 USD] it will not be enough."""


"Gẹ́gẹ́ bí ètò ọrọ̀ ajẹ́ wọ́n ṣe dẹnukọlẹ̀. Ali al-Ahmed (orúkọkórúkọ ni èyí náà, gẹ́gẹ́ bí ẹni yìí ṣe bèèrè fún ìdáàbòbò orúkọ rẹ̀) láti ìlu Daraa sọ fún Ohùn Àgbáyé ní orí ago pé ""nǹkan burú jáì, kò sí irú iṣẹ́ tí o lè ṣe, kódà kí wọn ó máa san Egbẹ̀rún mẹ́wàá owó ilẹ̀ Syria (láàrin Dọ́là kan sí márùn-ún) fún ènìyàn, kò le tóó ná."""


Ahmed said most people have been forced to forgo many basic goods due to exorbitant costs.


Ahmed ní ọ̀pọ̀ àwọn ẹrù ni àwọn ènìyàn ti kọ̀ sílẹ̀ láìgbà látàri ọ̀wọ́ngógó owó ìgbẹrù.


Between a health care system shattered by years of war and an economic situation that has left many Syrians impoverished, the ongoing pandemic has pushed the country toward uncharted, catastrophic territory.


Lásìkò tí ètò ìlera wọn ti dẹnikọlẹ̀ yìí látàari ewu ogun tí ó wu wọ́n tí ètò ọ̀rọ̀ ajé tí ó forí sánpọ́n sì ti sọ ọ̀pọ̀ ọmọ ilè Syria di Akúṣẹ̀ẹ́, Àjàkálẹ̀ ààrùn tí ò jà kiri yìí tún ti ti ìlú yìí sínú ewu àìkàsí àti ìdibàjẹ́.


YKS, with 2.5 million students, is taking place despite all the warnings: social distancing disappeared


Ìdánowò YKS ń lọ lọ́wọ́ pẹ̀lú mílíọ́nù méjì àbọ̀ akẹ́kọ̀ọ́ ládúrúu gbogbo ìkìlọ̀: Ìjìnàsíra-ẹni láwùjo gan-an di àwátì.


A new YKS controversy: morality


Àìgbọ́raẹniyé Ìdànwò YKS tuntun: ìwà rere


COVID-19 is not the only debate surrounding YKS in 2020.


Kì í ṣe COVID-19 nìkan ni famínfà tí ó yí Ìdánowò YKS ká ní ọdún 2020.


An even more impassioned discussion started in early July in relation to a text selected for the Turkish language exam.


Ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ àwọn ọ̀rọ̀ ló ti ń jà rànhìnrànhìn láti ìbẹ̀ẹ̀rẹ̀ oṣù keje èyí tí ó nííṣe pẹ̀lú ìwé àyọkà fún ìdánwò èdè Turkish.


One of the questions referred to the song by pop singer Mabel Matiz, a member of the LGBTQ.


"Ọ̀kan nínú àwọn ìbéèrè abẹ́ rẹ̀ tọ́ka sí ""Fırtınadayım, (mo wà nínú ìjì), orin olórin tàka-n-súfèé kan Mabel Matiz ọmọ ẹgbẹ́ LGBTQ."


"The question about the meaning of ""Gözümün gördüğü, göğsümün bildiği ile bir değil"" (which can be translated as ""what my eyes see is not what my heart feels"") has left its mark on social media because of Mabel's popularity among young people (some of his videos have 50 million views) and his sexual orientation."


"Ìbéèrè lórí ìtumọ̀ ""Gözümün gördüğü, göğsümün bildiği ile bir değil"" (tí a le tú sí ohun tí ojú mi rí kọ́ ni ohun tí aya mí mọ̀) ti ń da àwọn ìkànnì àwùjọ rú gùdùgùdù nítorí Mabel jẹ́ ẹni tí àwọn ọdọ́ mọ̀ bí ẹni mọ owó (Ọ̀pọ̀ àwọn fọ́nrán rẹ̀ ní ó máa ń ní olùwò tí ó tó àádọ́ta mílíọ́nù) àti ìṣe rẹ̀ lórí àwọn ohun tí ó jẹmọ́ akọ àti abo."


Following growing debates on Twitter, Halis Aygün, the president of the Center for Measurement, Selection and Placement (ÖSYM), the government body responsible for preparing the exam, gave an interview to far-right conservative media Yeni Akit in which he said the matter would be investigated and that those responsible for including the text would be fired:


Ní ìbámu pẹ̀lú fàmínfà orí ìkànni Twitter, Halis Aygün Ààrẹ Center for Measurement, Selection and Placement (ÖSYM), ẹ̀ka ìjọba tí ó bójú tó ìṣètò ìdánwò sọ nínú ìfọ̀rọ̀wánilẹ́nuwọ̀ pẹ̀lú àgbà òṣìṣẹ́ ìròyìn kan, Yeni Akit. Níbẹ̀ ni ó ti sọ pé wọn yóò ṣe ìwádìí ọ̀rọ̀ náà, gbogbo àwọn tí wọ́n bá sì lọ́wọ́ nínú fífi ìwé náà si abẹ́ ìdánwò ọ̀hún ni wọ́n yóò lé kúrò lẹ́nu iṣẹ́.


The 2020 YKS was completed safely and successfully in 188 exam centers in three sessions with the participation of approximately two and a half million candidates.


Ìdánwò YKS ọdún 2020 kẹ́sẹ járí kákàkiri àwọn ibùdó ìdánwò méjìdínnígbà (188) ní ìṣí ẹ̀ẹ̀mẹta, tí àwọn akópa nínú rẹ̀ sì ń lọ bíi mílíọ́nù méjì àbọ̀.


The question pool is created with the participation of thousands of academicians from different universities of our country.


Àwọn ìdánwò rẹ̀ jẹ́ èyí tí àwọn onímọ̀ akadá káàkiri àwọn fáfitì orílẹ̀-èdè wa ṣètò.


The sensitivity of the management of our institution about our national, moral values and social value judgments is clear.


Ìkíyèsí àwọn ẹ̀kọ́ ilé àti ọgbọ́n ìbágbépò láwùjọ fùn àwọn ilé-ìwé gíga wa máa ń jẹ́ kíkíyèsí.


An investigation has been launched into the content of the relevant question in the Turkish area of the 2020 YKS's TYT [this refers to one portion of the YKS exam] session.


Wọ́n ti fi ìdí ìwádìí lọ́lẹ̀ lórí àkóónú àwọn ìbéèrè tí ó nííṣe pẹ̀lú ìdánwò èdè Turkish ti ìdánwò YKS ọdún 2020 [èyí ká ọ̀kan nínú àwọn abala ìdánwò YKS].


The members of staff responsible will be discharged from the process of question preparation.


Àwọn òṣìṣẹ́ tí èyí bá ṣí mọ́ lórí ni wọn yóò di gbígbọ́n dànù kúrò nínú ìṣètò ìdánwò.


For some Twitter users, those measures aren't enough:


Fún àwọn asàmúlò ìkànnì Twitter kan, ìdájọ́ yìí kò tó:


[Top] ÖSYM President spoke for the first time after the exam!


"[Òkè] Ààrẹ ÖSYM sọ̀rọ̀ fún ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ lẹ́yìn ìdánwò! """


"""An investigation has been launched into the content of the problem."


Wọ́n ti fi ìdí ìwádìí lọ́lẹ̀ láti wo ibi tí ìṣòro náà ti wọ́wá.


"Responsible persons will be removed from the question preparation processes. """


"Àwọn tí wọ́n bá lọ́wọ́ nínú rẹ̀ yóò di gbígbọ́n dànù kúrò nínú ìṣètò ìdánwò."""


[Bottom] It is not enough [to remove him], the neglecting president must be removed from the management process so that he is properly done with.


[Ìsàlẹ̀] Kò tó [lá ti yọ ọ́] nìkan, Ààrẹ tí kò ka nǹkan sí náà gbọdọ̀ jẹ́ yíyọ kúrò nínú ìṣàkósọ gbogbo kí ojú rẹ̀ le wálẹ̀.


Conservative segments of society also question the intention behind the choice of that question:


Ọ̀wọ́ àwọn alẹ́nulọ́rọ̀ láwùjọ náà tún rí wí sí ìpinnu àti ṣètò irú ìbéèrè báyìí:


In today's YKS2020 exam, couldn't you find anyone else to show to teenagers other than the gay and LGBT advocate Mabel Matiz?


Nínú ìdánwò YKS2020 tí ó wáyé lónìí, ẹ kò rí ẹlòmìíràn fi ṣe àpèjúwe fún àwọn ọmọdé wọ̀nyí àfi ọkùnrin oníbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ nnì Mabel Matiz


" (The one who carries a banner saying ""we are faggots"") What are you trying to do?"


" (Ènìyàn tí ó gbé àkólé tí ó fi ń polongo pé ""Oníbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ ni àwa"" Kí ni ẹ̀ ń gbìyànjú láti ṣe?"


Public opinion remains largely divided as other Twitter users point out the success and popularity of Mabel Matiz:


Èrò àwọn aṣàmúlò ìkànni Twitter kò ṣọ̀kan pẹ̀lú bí àwọn mìíràn ṣe ń tọ́ka sí àwọn àṣeyọrí Mabel Matiz àti bí ó ṣe lókìkí sí:


"Dear investigative board members, I recommend that you watch Mabel Matiz's clips. Because we have no other artists who have embraced our culture this way for many years. That's why mabelmatiz is the treasure of our land. He is a unique ""artist"""


Èyin ọmọ ìgbìmọ̀ aṣèwádìí. Mo fẹ́ kí ẹ wo àwọn fọ́nrán Mabel Matiz. Nítorí pé a kò ní eléré mìíràn tí ó ti ṣe àmúlò àṣà wa tó báyìí ní ọ̀pọ̀ ọdún sẹ́yìn. Ìdí nìyẹn tí mabelmatiz ṣe jẹ́ ìsúra wa.


This netizen draws attention to the fact that by focusing on a gay singer politicians avoid addressing real issues:


Àwọn netizen pé àkíyèsí sí i pé fífi ojú sun olórin tí ó jẹ́ oníbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ, àwọn olóṣèlú yóò pa àwọn ọ̀rọ̀ tí ó ṣe kókó tì:


Nobody makes any noise about rapists, yet Mabel Matiz question becomes the subject of an investigation.


Kò sí ẹni tí ó figbe ta lórí àwọn afipábánilòpọ̀, síbẹ̀ ìwádìí Mabel Matiz ni wọ́n ń gbà bí ẹni ń gba igbá ọtí.


"You say ""our social value judgments"" but Mabel Matiz is the best reflector of our culture."


"Ẹ sọ pé ""ìdààbò bo ìṣe wa"" ṣùgbọ́n Mabel Matiz ni ẹni tí ó ṣe ìgbéjáde àṣà wa jùlọ."


Thus investigation should be about the ones who insult Mabel Matiz and discriminate against him.


Ó wa yẹ kí ìwádìí ó dá lé àwọn èyí tí ó tàbùkù Mabel Matiz tí wọ́n sì ṣẹlẹ́yàmẹ́yá rẹ̀.


Mabel Matiz's response to the controversy.


Èsì Mabel Matiz sí àìgbọ́raẹniyé náà.


On July 3, as the debate became more heated, Matiz finally broke his silence:


Ní ọjọ́ kẹta oṣù keje, bí fàmínfà náà ṣe ń gbóná sí i, Matiz padà la ohùn:


Hi:) I was very happy that my music was be the subject of such an important exam.


Ẹ ǹlẹ́ o:) Inú mi dùn pé orin mi jẹ́ lílò fún irú ìdánwò pàtàkì bí èyí.


Now I am amazed at how my personal values are subject of the same exam.


Ní báyìí, ìyàlẹ́nu lójẹ́ fún mi bí ìgbéayé mi ṣe di ohun tí ó kan ìdánwò tí à ń sọ yìí.


Look what I was tested with, while the geographical sign logo was about placed next to my name.


Ẹ wo ohun tí a fi dán mi wò..bí a ṣe gbé ààmi kan ní ìfẹ̀gbẹ́kẹ̀gbẹ́ pẹ̀lú orúkọ mi.


Well, I say that life's exams never end:) Another roll call came from here.


Kò burú, Ìdánwò ayé kò lópin:) Iyán tún di àtúngún wàyí.


I read your intense messages of support.


Mo ka ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ àwọn àtẹjáde tí ó ṣègbè lẹ́yín mi.


I understand what I want to say with my music, I sense that you understand me, and I feel even stronger now.


Òhun tí mo fẹ́ sọ nínú orin yẹn yémi, mó nímọ̀ pé ó yé ẹ̀yin náà, ara mi sì tún yá gágá sí i.


I will continue to make my music, tell stories, and be part of this country.


N ó tẹ̀síwájú láti máa kọ orin sí i, láti máa sọ ìtàn àti láti jẹ́ ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdè yìí.


See you in another exam...


Ká tún pàdé nínú ìdánwò mìíràn...


Matiz remains very popular: Just one day after Aygun's statement.


Matiz sì lókìkí síbẹ̀: lẹ́yìn ọjọ́ kan tí Aygun sọ̀rọ̀ sáfẹ́fẹ́.


He received two awards in a competition based on the popular vote.


Ó gba àmì-ẹ̀yẹ méjì nínú ìdíje àmì-ẹ̀yẹ kan nípasẹ̀ ìbò tí ó pọ̀jù.


He won in two categories.


Ó gba àmì-ẹyẹ ipele méjì.


"""Best Clip"" and ""Best Male Singer"" at the 46th Pantene Golden Butterfly Awards."


"""Orin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" àti ""Olórin ọkùnrin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" ní ìdíje àmìẹyẹ Pantene Golden Butterfly ẹlẹ́ẹ̀kẹrìndínláàádọ́ta irú rẹ̀."


This seems to indicate that very large numbers of people support him against the homophobia expressed by the government and conservative citizens.


Èyí fi hàn pé ọ̀pọ̀ ènìyá̀n ni wọ́n wà lẹ́yìn rẹ tako ọ̀rọ̀ ìbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ tí ìjọba àti àwọn alẹ́nulọ́rọ̀ tí ìjọba ń sọ.


On July 5, Mabel Matiz tweeted again:


Ní ọjọ́ karùn oṣù keje, Mabel Matix tún túwíìtì:


"I received the ""Best Male Artist"" and ""Best Video Clip"" awards at the 46th Golden Butterfly Awards, I am happy!"


"Mo gba àmì-ẹyẹ ""Fọ́nrán orin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" àti ""Olórin ọkùnrin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" nínú ìdíje àmì-ẹyẹ Pantene Golden Butterfly ẹlẹ́ẹ̀kẹrìndínláàádọ́ta irú rẹ̀"


"Thanks to all my dear listeners! I would like to extend my thanks to Erhan Arık and DOP Meryem Yavuz, the precious directors of [my song] ""I Have a Red in My Wipe"" clip."


". Inú mi dùn! Ẹ ṣé gan ẹ̀yin olùgbọ́ mi gbogbo. Màá fẹ́ láti dúpẹ́ lọ́wọ́ Erhan Arik àti DOP Meryem Yavuz. Àwọn tí wọ́n darí fọ́nrán [orin mi] ""I Have a Red in My Wipe"" tẹ́lẹ̀."


In Turkey, 2.5m students sit university entry exam despite COVID-19 outbreak


Ní orílẹ̀-èdè Turkey, ẹgbẹẹgbẹ̀rún méjì àbọ̀ àwọn akẹ́kọ̀ọ́ ni wọ́n jókòó ṣe ìdánwò ìgbaniwọlẹ́ sí Ifásitì


This year's exam was embroiled in controversy - and not just because of the pandemic


Ìdánwò ọdún yìí wáyé nínú àìgbọ́raẹniyé - àti pé kì í ṣe nítorí àjàkálẹ̀


Posted 17 July 2020 12:54 GMT


Àtẹ̀jáde ìtúmọ̀ 15 Ògún 2020 8:07 GMT


Screenshot of the YouTube video featuring a song by Mabel Matiz including the lyrics at the heart of the current controversy around the Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS):


Àwòrán ojú ìwò àwòrán-olóhùn orí YouTube ti orin kan láti ọwọ́ Mabel Matiz pẹ̀lú ọ̀rọ̀ orin náà ní àárín àìgbọ́raẹniyé tí ó súyọ látàrí Ìdánwò Ìgbaniwọlé sí Ilé Ẹ̀kọ́ Gíga (YKS):


"""Gözümün gördüğü, göğsümün bildiği ile bir değil"" (""what my eyes see is not what my heart feels"") "


"""Gözümün gördüğü, göğsümün bildiği ile bir değil"" (ohun tí ojú mi rí kọ́ ni ọkàn mi mọ̀ "") "


In Turkey, a country of over 83 million people, one needs to pass an entry test, the Higher Education Institution Exam, called Yükseköğretim Kurumları Sınavı in Turkish (YKS) to enter university.


Ní orílẹ̀-èdè Turkey, orílẹ̀-èdè tí ó lé ní ẹgbẹẹgbẹ̀rún mẹ́tàlélọ́gọ́rin ènìyàn (83 million), ènìyàn ní láti peregedé nínú ìdánwò ìgbaniwọlé tí wọn ń pè ní Yükseköğretim Kurumları Sınavı ní èdè ilẹ̀ Turkey láti wọlé sí Fáfitì.


This year, the multiple-choice questionnaire was taken in physical spaces by 2.5 million people, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.


Pẹ̀lú bí àjàkẹ́lẹ̀ COVID-19 ṣe ń jà rànhìn rànhìn, ìdánwò yìí sì jẹ́ ṣíṣe lójútáyé, ẹgbẹẹgbẹ̀rún méjì àbọ̀ ènìyàn (2.5 million) ni wọ́n jókòó ṣe ìdánwò náà.


On March 26, the Council of Higher Education announced the dates for YKS as July 25-26.


Ní ọjọ́ 26 osù Kẹta, àjọ àwọn ilé-ìwé gíga ilẹ̀ náà kéde ọjọ́ ìdánwò YKS yìí gẹ́gẹ́ bi ọjọ́ 25 sí ọjọ́ 26 oṣù Keje.


On May 4, Turkish President Recep Erdoğan changed them to June 27 and 28.


Ṣùgbọ́n ní ọjọ́ 4 oṣù karùn-ún, Ààrẹ ilẹ̀ Turkey Recep Erdoğan yí ọjọ́ náà sí ọjọ́ 27 sí ọjọ́ 28 oṣù Keje.


The changes and the uncertainties around the exam amid the COVID-19 pandemic launched countless discussions in Turkish society and on social media:


Àyípadà yìí àti àìdájú ìdánwò yìí ti ń kọ àwọn ènìyàn ilẹ̀ Turkey lóminú, ní ààrín ìgboro ìlú àti ní orí àwọn èrọ alátagbà lórí pé:


How do date changes affect the psychology of students, given the level of stress associated to YKS for which candidates prepare for months?


Báwo ni ọjọ́ yíyí ṣe ní ipá lórí ìrònú àwọn akẹ́kọ̀ọ́ tí wọn ń múra sílẹ̀ de ìdánwò láti bí osù mélòó kan?


How would COVID-19 prevention measures be applied and respected (social distancing, temperature measurements, the use of masks) when bringing together 2.5 million people?


Báwo ni àwọn àlàkalẹ̀ àti òfi ìdèènà ìtànkálẹ̀ COVID-19 yóò ṣe di títẹ̀lé (Jíjìnnà síra ẹni láwùjọ, ìwọn ìgbọ́nà/tutù, ìlò ạṣọ ìbomú) bí a bá ń kó ènìyàn tí ó tó mílíọ́nù méjì àbọ̀ papọ̀.


In 2019, 74.16 percent of the candidates passed the first part of YKS, and only 39.4 percent succeeded in the second part of the exam.


Ní ọdún 2019, ìdá mẹ́rìnléláàádọ́rin ó lé díẹ̀ ni àwọn olùṣèdánwò tí wọ́n pegedé nínú ìdánwò náà, nígbà tí ìdá mọ́kàndínlógójì pegedé sí ìpele ìkejì ìdánwò náà.


Turkey registered its first confirmed COVID-19 case on March 11, and by July 15, around 5,500 people infected with the virus have died, while there have been more than 200,000 confirmed cases of the disease in the country.


Orílẹ̀-èdè Turkey ṣe àkọsílẹ̀ ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ COVID-19 àkọ́kọ́ wọn ní ọjọ́ 11 oṣù kẹta ọdún, ní ìgbà tí ó fi máa di ọjọ́ 15 oṣù keje ẹ̀nìyàn ẹgbẹ̀rún márùn-ún àbọ̀ ti pàdánù ẹ̀mí wọn sí ọwọ́ ààrùn náà bẹ́ẹ̀ sì ni iye ènìyàn tí ó ti ní ààrùn náà ti lé ní igba ẹgbèrún.


On July 1, the government enforced special normalization measures:


Ní ọjọ́ 1 oṣù keje, Ìjọba gùnlé àwọn ìgbéṣẹ̀ ìdẹ́kun lóríṣiríṣi:


Businesses such as restaurants, cafes, cinemas and wedding halls that had been closed for about three months reopened with social distancing restrictions.


Àwọn ilé oko-òwò bi ilé ounjẹ, àwọn oko òwò ẹ̀rọ ayélujára, ilé ìṣàfihàn eré, gbọ̀ngàn ạyẹyẹ ìgbeyàwó tí wọ́n tì pa fún bíi oṣù mẹ́ta ni wọ́n ti tún ṣí padà báyìí, àmọ́ ṣá pẹ̀lú àtẹ̀lé ìjíjìnà síra ẹni láwùjọ.


Patrons are now required to wear masks and will have their temperature taken as well.


Àwọn olùbẹ̀wò báyìí nílò láti máa bo imú wọ, wọn yóò sì máa ṣe àyẹ̀wò ìgbóná/tutù wọn.


While students and opposition parties called for a further postponement of the YKS, the government went ahead with its plans:


Bí àwọn akẹ́kọ̀ọ́ tilẹ̀ fi ìpè síta pé kí ìdánwò YKS ó di sísún síwájú, ìjọba ò tẹ̀tì nínú àlàkalẹ̀ rẹ̀:


In late June, 2.5 million people took the exam.


Ní ìparí oṣù keje mílíọ̀nù méjì àbọ̀ ni ó jókòó ṣe ìdánwò náà..


As can be seen in this tweet, concerns over enforcement of social distancing in this context proved to be legitimate:


Gẹ́gẹ́ bí a ṣe rí i ní inú túwíìtì yìí, tí ó nííṣe pẹ̀lú àsujù lórí ìmúnitẹ̀lẹ́ ìjìnnà sí ara ẹni láwùjọ:


"One of the questions referred to the song by pop singer Mabel Matiz, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, ""Fırtınadayım"" (""I am in the storm""):"


"Ọ̀kan nínú àwọn ìbéèrè abẹ́ rẹ̀ tọ́ka sí ""Fırtınadayım, (mo wà nínú ìjì), orin olórin tàka-n-súfèé kan Mabel Matiz tí í ṣe LGBTQ ""Fırtınadayım"" (""I am in the storm""):"


"Ìbéèrè lórí ìtumọ̀ ""Gözümün gördüğü, göğsümün bildiği ile bir değil"" (tí a le tú sí ohun tí ojú mi rí kọ́ ni ohun tí aya mí mọ̀) ti ń da àwọn ìkànnì àwùjọ rú gùdùgùdù nítorí Mabel jẹ́ ẹni tí àwọn ọdọ́ mọ̀ bí ẹni mọ owó (ọ̀pọ̀ àwọn àwòrán-àtohùn rẹ̀ ní ó máa ń ní ìwò tí ó tó àádọ́ta mílíọ́nù) àti ìṣe rẹ̀ lórí àwọn ohun tí ó jẹmọ́ akọ́ṣebíabo."


Following growing debates on Twitter, Halis Aygün, the president of the Center for Measurement, Selection and Placement (ÖSYM), the government body responsible for preparing the exam, gave an interview to far-right conservative media Yeni Akit.


Ní ìbámu pẹ̀lú fàmínfà orí ìkànni Twitter, Halis Aygün Ààrẹ Center for Measurement, Selection and Placement (ÖSYM), ẹ̀ka ìjọba tí ó bójú tó ìṣètò ìdánwò sọ nínú ìfọ̀rọ̀wánilẹ́nuwọ̀ pẹ̀lú àgbà òṣìṣẹ́ ìròyìn kan, Yeni Akit.


In which he said the matter would be investigated and that those responsible for including the text would be fired:


Níbẹ̀ ni ó ti sọ pé wọn yóò ṣe ìwádìí ọ̀rọ̀ náà, gbogbo àwọn tí wọ́n bá sì lọ́wọ́ nínú fífi ìwé náà si abẹ́ ìdánwò ọ̀hún ni wọ́n yóò lé kúrò lẹ́nu iṣẹ́:


[Òkè] Ààrẹ ÖSYM sọ̀rọ̀ fún ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ lẹ́yìn ìdánwò!


"""An investigation has been launched into the content of the problem. Responsible persons will be removed from the question preparation processes. """


"""Wọ́n ti fi ìdí ìwádìí lọ́lẹ̀ láti wo ibi tí ìṣòro náà ti wọ́wá. Àwọn tí wọ́n bá lọ́wọ́ nínú rẹ̀ yóò di gbígbọ́n dànù kúrò nínú ìṣètò ìdánwò."""


In today's #YKS2020 exam, couldn't you find anyone else to show to teenagers other than the gay and LGBT advocate Mabel Matiz?


Nínú ìdánwò #YKS2020 tí ó wáyé lónìí, ẹ kò rí ẹlòmìíràn fi ṣe àpèjúwe fún àwọn ọmọdé wọ̀nyí àfi ọkùnrin oníbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ nnì Mabel Matiz?


" (The one who carries a banner saying ""we are faggots"") "


" (Ènìyàn tí ó gbé àkólé tí ó fi ń polongo pé ""Oníbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ ni àwa"""


What are you trying to do?


Kí ni ẹ̀ ń gbìyànjú láti ṣe?


Dear investigative board members, I recommend that you watch Mabel Matiz's clips.


Èyin ọmọ ìgbìmọ̀ aṣèwádìí. Mo fẹ́ kí ẹ wo àwọn fọ́nrán Mabel Matiz.


Because we have no other artists who have embraced our culture this way for many years.


Nítorí pé a kò ní eléré mìíràn tí ó ti ṣe àmúlò àṣà wa tó báyìí ní ọ̀pọ̀ ọdún sẹ́yìn.


"That's why #mabelmatiz is the treasure of our land. He is a unique ""artist"""


Ìdí nìyẹn tí mabelmatiz ṣe jẹ́ ìsúra wa.


Àwọn èèyàn lórí ayélujára pé àkíyèsí sí i pé fífi ojú sun olórin tí ó jẹ́ oníbálòpọ̀-akọsíakọ, àwọn olóṣèlú yóò pa àwọn ọ̀rọ̀ tí ó ṣe kókó tì:


And this one concludes:


Eléyìí kó gbogbo rẹ̀ nílẹ̀:


Thus investigation should be about the ones who insult Mabel Matiz and discriminate against him. #MabelMatizisnotalone [Top of post]


Ó wa yẹ kí ìwádìí ó dá lé àwọn èyí tí ó tàbùkù Mabel Matiz tí wọ́n sì ṣẹlẹ́yàmẹ́yá rẹ̀. #MabelMatizisnotalone [Àtẹ̀jáde òkè]


Mabel Matiz's response to the controversy


Èsì Mabel Matiz sí àìgbọ́raẹniyé náà


Ní ọjọ́ 3 oṣù Keje, bí fàmínfà náà ṣe ń gbóná sí i, Matiz padà la ohùn:


Well, I say that life's exams never end:)


Kò burú, Ìdánwò ayé kò lópin:)


Another roll call came from here.


Iyán tún di àtúngún wàyí.


Matiz remains very popular: Just one day after Aygun's statement, he received two awards in a competition based on the popular vote.


Matiz sì lókìkí síbẹ̀: lẹ́yìn ọjọ́ kan tí Aygun sọ̀rọ̀ sáfẹ́fẹ́, ó gba àmì-ẹ̀yẹ méjì nínú ìdíje àmì-ẹ̀yẹ kan nípasẹ̀ ìbò tí ó pọ̀jù.


"He won in two categories, ""Best Clip"" and ""Best Male Singer"" at the 46th Pantene Golden Butterfly Awards."


"Ó gba àmì-ẹyẹ ipele méjì, ""Orin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" àti ""Olórin ọkùnrin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" ní ìdíje àmìẹyẹ Pantene Golden Butterfly ẹlẹ́ẹ̀kẹrìndínláàádọ́ta irú rẹ̀."


Ní ọjọ́ 5 oṣù Keje, Mabel Matix tún túwíìtì:


"Mo gba àmì-ẹyẹ ""àwòrán-àtohùn orin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" àti ""Olórin ọkùnrin tí mùṣèmúṣè rẹ̀ dá múṣé jùlọ"" nínú ìdíje àmì-ẹyẹ Pantene Golden Butterfly ẹlẹ́ẹ̀kẹrìndínláàádọ́ta irú rẹ̀, Inú mi dùn!"


Thanks to all my dear listeners!


Ẹ ṣé gan ẹ̀yin olùgbọ́ mi gbogbo.


I would like to extend my thanks to Erhan Arık and DOP Meryem Yavuz, the precious directors of [my song]


Màá fẹ́ láti dúpẹ́ lọ́wọ́ Erhan Arik àti DOP Meryem Yavuz, àwọn tí wọ́n darí àwòrán-àtohùn [orin mi]


"""I Have a Red in My Wipe"" clip."


"""I Have a Red in My Wipe"" clip tẹ́lẹ̀."


"When a courtier seeks disgrace, he asks, ""What can the king do?"""


Bí ìlàrí bá fẹ́ tẹ́, a ní kí lọba ó ṣe?


If the fire gets at the stew, the stew will burst into speech.


Bí iná bá dun ọbẹ̀, a dá ọ̀rọ̀ sọ.


Were it not for the fact that they were brought transported together, what would a goat want in the chicken's stall?


Bí kò sí àkópọ̀, kí lewúrẹ́ wá dé ìsọ̀ adìẹ?


But for a person of filthy habits, who would wake in the morning and not wash his or her face clean?


Bí kò sí tọ̀bùn èèyàn, ta ni ìbá jí lówùúrọ̀ tí kò bọ́jú ṣáṣá?


If I die on account of a farm, I will lay my case before the hut; if I die on account of bananas, I will lay my case before the river; if I die on account of the famous woman with facial scarification, I will lay my case before my head.


Bí mo bá torí oko kú n ó rò fáhéré; bí mo bá torí ọ̀gẹ̀dẹ̀ kú n ó rò fódò; bí mo bá torí alábàjà òkíkí kú, n ó rò fóríì mi.


If it has been three years since the leopard took ill, is it a monkey that one sends to ask its condition?


Bí ó di ọdún mẹ́ta tí ẹkùn-ún ti ń ṣe òjòjò, olugbe la ó ha rán lọ bẹ̀ ẹ́ wò?


It is by its flight that the parrot proves itself a formidable bird.


Bí òfé ti ń fò la ti ń mọ̀ ọ́ lákọ ẹyẹ.


Whether the corpse is distended or is not, one should ask the heir of the dead.


Bí òkú fẹ̀, bí kò fẹ̀, ká bi ọmọ olókùú léèrè.


When the eyes see, the mouth remains quiet.


Bí ojú bá rí, ẹnu a dákẹ́.


If the eye does not see, the mouth says nothing.


Bí ojú kò bá rí, ẹnu kì í sọ nǹkan.


If the thief feels no shame, members of his household should.


Bí ojú kò bá ti olè, a ti ará ilé ẹ̀.


Even though the host's eyes are tiny, and the guest's eyes are huge, it is the host who holds sway over the guest.


Bí ojú onílé bá mọ tíntín, tí ojú àlejòó tó gbòǹgbò, onílé ní ń ṣe ọkọ àlejò.


If the owner of a yard does not die, his yard is not overgrown with wild grass.


Bí olóde ò kú, òdee rẹ̀ kì í hu gbẹ́gi.


If the owner of the food is reluctant to share, one disgraces him by refusing to eat.


Bí olóúnjẹ bá rojú à fi àìjẹ tẹ́ ẹ.


When the year is done, the bọnnọbọ́nnọ́n tree changes its color.


Bí ọdún bá dún, bọnnọnbọ́nnọ́n a pàwọ̀ dà.


When the market disperses, only the head of the market women remains; only the venerable elders remain; when Ifá has had his say, the genius that consults him arises.


Bí ọjàá bá tú tán, a ku olóríi pàtẹpàtẹ, a ku àgbààgbà sà-ǹkò sà-ǹkò lọ́jà; bÍfá bá pẹ̀dí tán, ìwọ̀-ǹ-wọ̀ a dìde.


"When a goat's day ""to die"" arrives, it says there is nothing a butcher can do to it."


Bí ọjọ́ ewúrẹ́ bá pé, a ní kò sí ohun tí alápatà lè fi òun ṣe.


If a lazy man cannot fight, he should be able to die disgracefully.


Bí ọ̀lẹ́ ò lè jà, a lè kú tùẹ̀.


If God does not make one a father, one strives to act like an elder.


Bí Ọlọ́run ò ṣe ẹni ní baba, à fi ìyànjú ṣe bí àgbà.


If a youth attempts to act like an elder, his age will stop him.


Bí ọmọdé bá fẹ́ ṣìṣe àgbà, ọjọ́ oríi rẹ̀ ò níí jẹ́.


If a child ascends the height of maturity, he/she must become wise.


Bí ọmọdé bá gun òkè àgbà, ó níláti gbọ́n.


When a child is being a child, an elder must remain an elder.


Bí ọmọdé bá ń ṣe ọmọdé, àgbà a máa ṣe bí àgbà.


If a child brags a great deal, but has no father, one acts the part of a father.


Bí ọmọdé ń lérí bébé, tí kò ní baba, ti baba là ń ṣe.


Even if the goddess Ọya sings in heaven and the god Ṣango sings on earth, matters cannot be so bad for the father that he will say it is all up to his dead child in heaven.


Bí Ọya ń kọ lọ́run, bí Ṣàngó ń jó láyé, kò níí burú fún baba kó ní ó dọwọ́ ọmọ òun lọ́run.


The mad dog, and the person who behaves like a mad dog, both make it impossible for one to know the real dog.


Dìgbòlugi-dìgbòlùùyàn ò jẹ́ ká mọ ajá tòótọ́.


The elephant has only chosen to remain silent; to the elephant belongs the forest.


Dídákẹ́ lerín dákẹ́; àjànàkú ló lẹgàn.


Some masqueraders are greater than others; some gods are greater than others; the masquerader Pààká chases the Ṣàngó worshipper into the bush.


Eégún ju eégún; òrìṣá ju òrìṣà; Pààká lé oníṣàngó wọ̀gbẹ́.


The masquerader did not hit a woman with his shroud, but the woman unwraps her home-woven wrapper and hits the masquerader with it.


Eégún ò na obìnrin lágọ̀; obìnrín tú kíjìpá ìdíi rẹ̀, ó fi na eégún.


"The masquerader stayed too long on parade and is reduced to speaking with his upper lip. They said, ""Welcome, father,"" and he responded, ""He-e-e-e."""


"Eégún pẹ́ lóde, ó fètè òkè dáhùn; wọ́n ní, ""Baba kú àbọ̀,"" ó ní, ""Hì ìì."""


"The masquerader enters a house and claims he did not see Ejonto; Ejonto asked, ""Is that a rag that entered the house, or what?"""


"Eégún wọlé, ó ní òun ò rí Ejonto; Ejontó ní, ""Àkísà ni, àbí kíní wọlé?"""


An elephant's bone: it sticks in the wolf's mouth.


Eegun àjànàkú: ó há ìkokò lẹ́nu.


A tick fastens on a fox's mouth and a chicken is asked to peck it off; the chicken, though, knows that it itself is food for a fox.


Eégbọn so mọ́ àyìnrín lẹ́nu, a ní kí adìẹ wá yán an jẹ; adìẹ́ mọ̀ pé òun náà oúnjẹ àyìnrín.


A snake does not escape over the fence while a warrior watches.


Ejò kì í ti ojú Ààrẹ gun ọgbà lọ.


I bought twenty cowries worth of corn pap and you bought twenty cowries worth of corn pap, and you call me a corn pap addict.


Èmí dákọ okòó, ìwọ́ dákọ okòó, ò ń pèmí ní mùkọ-mùkọ.


I am a pawn, you are a pawn, and you tell me the creditor sent you to collect his money; have you repaid yours?


Èmi ìwọ̀fà, ìwọ ìwọ̀fà, o ní babá ní ká gbowó wá; o dá tìrẹ sílẹ̀ ná?


It is palm oil that I am carrying; sandman, do not ruin my fortune.


Epo ni mo rù; oníyangí má ba tèmi jẹ́.


An elephant's trumpeting is never answered by its young's trumpeting.


Erin kì í fọn kọ́mọọ rẹ̀ ó fọn.


It is people who use the path that will spread the word about mature corn.


Èrò ọ̀nà ni yó ròyìn ọkà tó gbó.


Èsúrú yam forgets itself and loses favor with the maker of pounded yams; the lizard forgets itself and falls into disfavor with the wall; tortoise-like He-who-will-remain-nameless forgets himself and loses all regard with me.


Èsúrú ṣe fújà ó tẹ́ lọ́wọ́ oníyán; aláǹgbá ṣe fújà ó tẹ́ lọ́wọ́ ògiri; Ọlámọnrín àjàpá ṣe fújà ó tẹ́ lọ́wọ́-ọ̀ mi.


It is only with the ears that a woman hears the voice of Orò.


Etí lobìnrín fi ń gbọ́ ohùn orò.


Which among the leaves of the locust-bean tree is adequate to receive corn-loaf?


Èwo ló tó ẹ̀kọọ́ gbà nínú ewé ìrúgbàá?


What business does Sikirat have in the town of Ìwó?


Èwo ni ti Síkírá nílùú Ìwó.


The cane-rat that attempts to uproot a palm-tree will lose all its teeth in the attempt.


Ewújù tí yóò tú ọ̀pẹ: gbogbo eyín ẹ̀ ni yóò kán tán.


The goat did not say it was not sired by the sheep; it was the sheep that said it was not sired by the goat.


Ewúrẹ́ ò wí pé òun ò ṣọmọ àgùntàn; àgùntàn ló wí pé òun ò ṣọmọ ewúrẹ́.


If sired by a goat, one does not go foraging in the realm of sheep.


Ewúrẹ́ kì í bíni ká lọ sísọ̀ àgùntàn lọ jẹ̀.


Only people like monkeys have their clothing torn by monkeys.


Èèyàn bí ọ̀bọ lọ̀bọ ń ya láṣọ.


Humans have no place to sleep, and a dog is snoring.


Èèyàn ò ríbi sùn, ajá ń hanrun.


A shameless person deserves to have only one eye, that one as large as a horse's.


Èèyàn tí ò nítìjú ojú kan ni ìbá ní; a gbórín a tó tẹṣin.


"""Lead it into the stable"" is what becomes a horseman."


"""Ẹ fà á wọlé"" ló yẹ ẹlẹ́ṣin."


Let us breathe, leave us in peace; the fashion is for people to sit on their behinds; were humans in the position of God they would not permit people to breathe.


Ẹ jẹ́ ká mí, ẹ jẹ́ ká simi; èèyàn ní ń fìdí èèyàn jókòó; èèyàn ìbá ṣe bí Ọlọ́run kò níí jẹ́ ká mí.


"""Greetings to you, house-bound ones"" is improper for the house-bound to utter; ""Welcome home"" is not proper for the person arriving from a trip; whoever fails to give ""welcome"" to the person returning does himself or herself out of ""greetings, house-bound."""


"""Ẹ kúulé"" ò yẹ ará ilé; ""Ẹ kú atìbà"" ò yẹni tí ń tàjò bọ̀; ẹni tí ò kí ẹni, ""Kú atìbà""-á pàdánù ""Ẹ kúulé."""


The mouth-trap never misses.


Ẹ̀bìtì ẹnu ò tàsé.


It is for one's peers that one makes pounded yam with ewùrà yams.


Ẹgbẹ́ ẹni là ń gúnyán ewùrà dè.


The novice does not know that a good-looking person does not wear a masquerade; all his perfectly white teeth are concealed beneath the cloth.


Ẹ̀gbẹ̀rì ò mọ̀ pé arẹwà kì í gbé ẹ̀kú; gbogbo eyín kin-kìn-kin lábẹ́ aṣọ.


The elder walks in front, a loincloth draped over his shoulder; the younger walks behind, wearing a garment; if people cannot tell which one is shiftless, does he not know himself?


Ẹ̀gbọ́n ṣíwájú ó so aṣọ kọ́; àbúrò kẹ́yìn ó wẹ̀wù; bí a ò mọ̀lẹ, ọ̀lẹ ò mọ araa rẹ̀?


A person says he has lost an unspecified amount of money, and you ask if the amount is five hundred cowries or eleven hundred cowries; which amount did you steal?


"Ẹlẹ́ẹ̀ẹ́dẹ́ ń lọ ẹ̀ẹ́dẹ́, o ní ""Ẹ̀ẹ́dẹ́gbẹ̀ta ni àbí ẹ̀ẹ́dẹ́gbẹ̀fà?""; èwo lo gbé níbẹ̀?"


The pig wallows in mud, but thinks it is being a dandy.


Ẹlẹ́dẹ̀ ń pàfọ̀, ó rò pé òún ń ṣoge.


A pig does not know what is becoming.


Ẹlẹ́dẹ̀ ò mẹ̀yẹ.


When a person proclaims the loss of six articles, one does not respond by saying one has not eaten in six days.


Ẹlẹ́ẹ́fà kì í lọ ẹẹ́fàa rẹ̀ ká sọ pé o di ìjẹfà tí a ti jẹun.


The person one would leave on the farm hoping he would become a partridge boasts that he is the indispensable presence of the household.


Ẹni à bá fi sóko kó dàparò, ó ní òun ẹni ilé.


A person who should be sold for money to purchase a machete bemoans his lack of a machete.


Ẹni à bá tà ká fowóo rẹ̀ ra àdá: ó ní ìyà àdá ń jẹ òun.


A person who should be sold for money to purchase a lamp boasts that he is one-people-light-lamps-to-admire-at-night.


Ẹni à bá tà ká fowóo rẹ̀ ra àtùpà: ó ní òun à-jí-tanná-wò-lóru.


A person one would sell for money to purchase quartered yams for planting: he claims that he has enough earnings to buy three hundred yam pieces.


Ẹni à bá tà ká fowóo rẹ̀ ra èbù: ó ní èlé òún kó ọ̀ọ́dúnrún.


It is the person who is revered that will disgrace himself or herself.


Ẹni à ń gbé gẹ̀gẹ̀ ni yó ba araa rẹ̀ jẹ́.


Whoever gazes downwards with will see his or her nose.


Ẹní bá dẹ ojúu rẹ̀ sílẹ̀ á rímúu rẹ̀.


The person who wears a crown has outgrown childhood.


Ẹní dádé ti kúrò lọ́mọdé.


The person who is clothed by others does not list what he will not wear.


Ẹni tí a bá ń dáṣọ fún kì í ka èèwọ̀.


A person one loves is different from a person who says there is no one like him/herself.


Ẹni tí a fẹ́ yàtọ̀ sí ẹni tó ní kò sí irú òun.


The person whom people have seated on a pig should moderate his or her strutting; even a horse rider will eventually come down to earth.


Ẹni tí a gbé gun ẹlẹ́dẹ̀, ìwọ̀n ni kó yọ̀ mọ; ẹni tó gẹṣin, ilẹ̀ ló ń bọ̀.


A person who can be lifted does not hang limp.


Ẹni tí a lè gbé kì í dawọ́.


A person whose appearance moves one to tears is moved to laughter by his own appearance.


Ẹni tí à ń wò láwò-sunkún ń wo araa rẹ̀ láwò-rẹ́rìn-ín.


A person whose company is not desired gets no turn at riddling.


Ẹni tí a ò fẹ́, àlọ́ ò kàn án.


A person not welcome in the town does not take a turn in the dancing circle.


Ẹni tí a ò fẹ́ nílùú kì í jó lójú agbo.


The person one would expect to be reckless is not reckless; the person one would expect to be cautious is not cautious; the millipede with two hundred arms and two hundred legs behaves very gently.


Ẹni tí ìbá hùwà ipá ò hùwà ipá; ẹni tí ìbá hùwà ẹ̀lẹ̀ ò hu ẹ̀lẹ̀; ọ̀kùn tó nígba ọwọ́, tó nígba ẹsẹ̀ ń hùwà pẹ̀lẹ́.


A person who lacks the strength to lift an ant but rushes forward to lift an elephant ends in disgrace.


Ẹni tí kò lè gbé eèrà, tí ń kùsà sí erin, títẹ́ ní ń tẹ́.


It is a person with limited experience of life who thinks there is none as wise as he.


Ẹni tí kò rí ayé rí ní ń sọ pé kò sẹ́ni tó gbọ́n bí òun.


It is the person who deceives himself that the gods above deceive: a bachelor who has no wife at home but implores the gods to grant him children.


Ẹni tó tan araa rẹ̀ lòrìṣà òkè ń tàn: àpọ́n tí ò láya nílé, tó ní kí òrìṣà ó bùn un lọ́mọ.


A person who is not huge in stature does not breathe heavily.


Ẹni tí kò tó gèlètè kì í mí fìn-ìn.


The person who is self-aware protects his or her own reputation thereby.


Ẹni tó tijú tì í fún araa rẹ̀.


"Nobody is entitled to say, ""Here we come."""


"Ẹnìkan kì í jẹ́ ""Àwá dé."""


What sort of meat is it, the likes of which one has never tasted? A toad comes upon one at the swamp and cowers in fright.


Ẹran kí la ò jẹ rí? Ọ̀pọ̀lọ́ báni lábàtà ó ba búrúbúrú.


The haft of the hoe is behaving like a hoe.


Ẹ̀rúkọ́ ń ṣe bí ọkọ́.


A palace guard does not receive arrows on his back; he suffers wounds only on his front.


Ẹ̀ṣọ́ kì í gba ọfà lẹ́yìn; iwájú gangan ní ń fií gba ọgbẹ́.


A chain as thick as a palm-tree cannot stop an elephant; the vine that proposes to stop the elephant from going to the grassland will go with the elephant.


Ẹ̀wọ̀n tó tó ọ̀pẹ ò tóó dá erin dúró; ìtàkùn tó ní kí erin má ròkè ọ̀dàn, tòun terin ní ń lọ.


I was born of a monkey; I was raised by a leopard, I was adopted by a cat; if there is no meat in the stew I will not eat it.


Ẹ̀yá ló bí mi, ẹkùn ló wò mí dàgbà, ológìnní gbà mí tọ́; bí kò sẹ́ran lọ́bẹ̀ n kò jẹ.


The woodpecker boasts that it can carve a mortar; who ever used a mortar carved by the woodpecker to make pounded yam?


Ẹyẹ akòkoó ní òún le gbẹ́ odó; ta ní jẹ́ fi odó akòko gúnyán jẹ?


A bird cannot get at the liquid inside a coconut to drink.


Ẹyẹ ò lè rí omi inú àgbọn bù mu.


Whatever bird emulates the vulture will find itself behind the cooking hearth.


Ẹyẹ tó fi ara wé igún, ẹ̀yìn àdìrò ní ń sùn.


Falana, look to your own affairs; one's attention should be focused first on one's own affairs.


Fálànà gbọ́ tìrẹ, tara ẹni là ń gbọ́.


The monkey's showing off is limited to the confines of the forest.


Fáàárí ọ̀bọ ò ju inú ìgbẹ́ lọ.


Unrestrained and thoughtless behavior does not befit a well-born person.


Gànràn-gànràn ò yẹ ẹni a bíire.


"""Take this and eat it"" does not become an elder."


"""Gbà jẹ"" ò yẹ àgbà."


"""Save me, save me!"" does not become an elder; an elder should not do something that will make him the object of pursuit."


"""Gbà mí, gbà mí!"" ò yẹ àgbà; àgbà kì í ṣe ohun àlémú."


"""Save me, save me!"" does not befit a masquerader; ""An animal is chasing me!"" does not befit a hunter."


"""Gbà mí, gbà mí!"" ò yẹ eégún; ""ẹran ń lémi bọ̀"" ò yẹ ọdẹ."


"""Accept imputation of imbecility,"" ""I will accept no imputation of imbecility"" is the explanation for market noise."


"""Gba wèrè,"" ""N ò gba wèrè"" lọjà fi ń hó."


Everybody laments Banjọ's fate, but Banjọ does not lament his own fate.


Gbogbo èèyàn ní ń sunkún-un Bánjọ; ṣùgbọ́n Bánjọ ò sunkún ara ẹ̀.


Everybody is taking the title Máyẹ̀lóyè (May-you-never-lose-the-title), but the title you receive is Sáré-pẹgbẹ́ (Run-and-assemble-the-associations' members; in other words, Courier or Messenger).


Gbogbo ẹgbẹ́ ń jẹ Má-yẹ̀-lóyè, ò ń jẹ Sáré-pẹgbẹ́.


The busybody is privy to all matters.


Gbogbo ọ̀rọ̀ ní ń ṣojú èké.


There is no cause for staggering about, except for the person pushing himself/herself.


Gbọ̀n-ọ́n-gbọ̀n-ọ́n kan ò sí, àfi ẹni tó bá ń ti ara ẹ̀.


The disgrace one incurs in one day does not disappear that soon.


Ìbàjẹ́ ọjọ́ kan ò tán bọ̀rọ̀.


Whatever one names as the head, one does not tread the floor with it.


Ibi tí a bá pè lórí, a kì í fi tẹlẹ̀.


Wherever one situates the body, there it inhabits.


Ibi tí a fi ara sí lara ń gbé.


Salt dampens only the place where it is placed.


Ibi tí a fi iyọ̀ sí ló ń ṣomi sí.


The part one names the head is the one that grows hair.


Ibi tí a pè lórí ní ń hurun.


The place where a lazy person was apprehended bears no marks; the place where a powerful man was apprehended is broad enough to plant a farm.


Ibi tí a ti mú ọ̀lẹ ò kúnná; ibi tí a ti mú alágbáraá tó okoó ro.


Where one must recite genealogies in order to establish one's claim to inheritance, one should know that one really has no claim to patrimony there.


Ibi tí a ti ń pìtàn ká tó jogún, ká mọ̀ pé ogún ibẹ̀ ò kanni.


Where life catches up with one, there one lives it.


Ibi tí ayé bá ẹni ni a ti ń jẹ ẹ́.


It is the master's engaging in silly antics that affords the pawn the opportunity to laugh so hard that he tosses his cutlass away.


Ìbọ́n dídá olówó ló ní kíwọ̀fà rín rín rín kó sọ àdá nù.


It is with its own sword that one kills the tortoise.


Idà ahun la fi ń pa ahun.


The sword is destroying its own home, and it says it is ruining the scabbard.


Idà ń wó ilé ara ẹ̀ ó ní òún ń ba àkọ̀ jẹ́.


The two buttocks are sufficient for their owner to sit on.


Ìdí méjéèjì tó olúwaa rẹ̀ jókòó.


The vulture perches on the roof; its eyes see the homestead as well as the farm.


Igúnnugún bà lé òrùlé; ojú tó ilé ó tó oko.


When the clay statue hankers for disgrace it asks to be placed in the rain.


Ìgbà tí ṣìgìdìí bá fẹ́ ṣe eré ẹ̀tẹ́ a ní kí wọ́n gbé òun sójò.


When will (or how can) Maku avoid the danger of dying? Maku does not know the mysteries of the cult yet he joins in its vows; Maku does not know how to swim and yet he jumps into the river.


Ìgbà wo ni Mákùú ò níí kú? Mákùú ò mọ awo ó ń bú ọpa; Mákùú ò mọ̀ ó̩ wẹ̀ ó ń bọ́ sódò.


What sort of hole does the rat live in that makes him say that household work preoccupied it?


Ihò wo lèkúté ń gbé tó ní iṣẹ́ ilé ń díwọ́?


The wild cat never roams in daylight; a well-bred person does not wander around in the night time.


Ìjàkùmọ̀ kì í rin ọ̀sán, ẹni a bíire kì í rin òru.


The brown ant cannot lift a boulder.


Ìjàlọ ò lè gbé òkúta.


How one sits causes one to carry the leaves used to wrap corn-meal to the dump.


Ìjokòó ẹni ní ń múni da ewé ẹ̀kọ nù.


The government summons you and you say you are busy eating cassava grains soaked in water; who owns you, and who owns the water with which you are eating the cassava?


Ìjọba ń pè ọ́ o ní ò ń mu gààrí lọ́wọ́; ta ní ni ọ́, ta ní ni omi tí o fi ń mu gààrí?


"""I-was-in-my-home"" is never the guilty party in a dispute."


Ilé-ni-mo-wà kì í jẹ̀bi ẹjọ́.


A house does not burn while the landlord lounges with indifference.


Ilé kì í jó kí baálé ilé tàkakà.


A house does not burn and fill the eyes with sleep.


Ilé kì í jó kí oorun kun ojú.


One drum is not enough for an Ègùn person to dance to; if one drums for him he too will play a rhythm on his chest.


Ìlù kan ò tó Ègùn jó; bí a bá lù fún un a máa lu àyà.


Fire burns and the wall does not run from it; now it moves threateningly towards water.


Iná ń jó ògiri ò sá, ó wá ń gbá gẹẹrẹ gẹẹrẹ sómi.


An unpleasant inside is what a venerable elder should have; a venerable elder should not have an unpleasant mien.


Inú burúkú làgbà ń ní, àgbà kì í ní ojú burúkú.


The wound left by a cutlass may heal, but the wound left by speech does not heal.


Ipa ọgbẹ́ ní ń sàn; ipa ohùn kì í sàn.


One sees only other peoples' occiputs; only others can see one's own.


Ìpàkọ́ onípàkọ́ là ń rí; eniẹlẹ́ni ní ń rí tẹni.


The eyelashes do not make dew; a venerable old beard does not behave like an ingenue.


Ìpéǹpéjú ò ní enini; àgbàlagbà irùngbọ̀n ò ṣe òlòó.


There is no cheating in photography; it is just as you sit that you will find your image.


Ìrẹ́jẹ ò sí nínúu fọ́tò; bí o bá ṣe jókòó ni o ó bá araà rẹ.


The likeness of a particular type of cloth is not lacking among those in fashion.


Irú aṣọ ò tán nínu àṣà.


The likeness of an elephant is not scarce in Alọ.


Irú erin ò tán ní Àlọ́.


The horse-tail whisk does not shun Ifá; high-fashion maiden, pause awhile and give me a greeting.


Ìrùkẹ̀rẹ̀ kì í yan Ifá lódì; oge, dúró o kí mi.


"The fugitive does not stop to pull a thorn ""from his/her feet""; the fugitive does not stop to clear dinner dishes."


Ìsáǹsá ò yọ ẹ̀gún; ìsáǹsá kì í káwo ọbẹ̀.


Destitution does not attach to one at a particular place; suffering does not attack a person at a particular place; if one walks like a wretch into a town, if one looks like a loser when one enters a town, it is with a miserable calabash that the people will offer one water to drink.


Ìṣẹ̀ ò ti ibìkan mú ẹni; ìyà ò tibìkan jẹ èèyàn; bí o bá rìnrìn òṣì, bí o bá ojú ìṣẹ́ wọ̀lú, igbákúgbá ni wọn ó fi bu omi fún ẹ mu.


A vine as thick as a palm-tree trunk will not stop an elephant; whatever vine attempts to stop an elephant from going to Alọ will go with the elephant instead.


Ìtàkùn tó tó ọ̀pẹ kò tó pé kérin má lọ; ìtàkùn tó pé kérin má lọ Àlọ́, tòun terin ní ń lọ.


Character is always remarkable (or good) in the opinion of its owner.


Ìwà ní ń jọ oníwà lójú.


A pawned person always dances with a pawned person.


Ìwọ̀fà ní ń mú ìwọ̀fà jó.


The measure of the rat is the measure of the nest; a robin does not live on a cushion.


Ìwọ̀n eku nìwọ̀n ìtẹ́; olongo kì í gbé tìmùtìmù.


Trading insults brings ruin to an elder's home.


Ìwọ̀sí ní í ba ilé àgbà jẹ́.


The wife who whips a relative of her husband is asking for stern rebuke.


Ìyàwó tó na ọmọ ọbàkan, ọ̀rọ̀ ló fẹ́ gbọ́.


Sedately is the way an elderly masquerader dances.


Jẹ́jẹ́ leégún àgbà ń jó.


The jòkùmọ̀ plant looks like the indigo plant; it is the indigo dye, though, we have use for.


Jòkùmọ̀ọ́ ṣe bí ẹ̀lú, aró la bẹ̀ lọ́wẹ̀.


To see a person in the streets is not the same as going home with the person.


Ká ríni lóde ò dàbíi ká báni délé.


Having people to advise one is nothing like knowing how to take advice.


Ká ríni sọ̀rọ̀ fúnni ò dàbíi ká sọ̀rọ̀ fúnni ká gbà.


If one is spoken to one should listen; if one is advised one should heed the advice; one should seek direction from straggling wayfarers in order than one's life might be pleasant.


Ká wí fún ẹni ká gbọ́; ká sọ̀rọ̀ fúnni ká gbà; kà bèrè ọnà lọ́wọ́ èrò tó kù lẹ́yìn kàyè baà lè yẹni.


If one is spoken to one should listen; if one is advised one should accept the advice; refusal to listen to speech and refusal to accept advice leads to using the calabash of deprivation as a drinking cup.


Ká wí fúnni ká gbọ́; ká sọ̀rọ̀ fúnni ká gbà; à-wí-ìgbọ́, à-gbọ́-ìgbà ní ń fi igbá àdánù bu omi mu.


To heed advice is what best becomes a human being.


Ká wí ká gbà ló yẹ ọmọ èèyàn.


"Whether one speaks twenty times or speaks thirty times, ""I do not like it, and I will not accept it"" is how the imbecile ends the discussion."


"Ká wí ogún, ká wí ọgbọ̀n, ""N ò fẹ́, n ò gbà"" laṣiwèré fi ń pẹ̀kun ọ̀ràn."


Rather than prostrate oneself in homage or obeisance to a Hausa person, one should rather die.


Kàkà ká dọ̀bálẹ̀ fún Gàm̀bàrí, ká rọ́jú ká kú.


Rather than cry out, the ram will die.


Kàkà kí àgbò ké, àgbò a kú.


Rather than the father carrying the son's cutlass home from the farm, each will carry his own.


Kàkà kí bàbá ran ọmọ ní àdá bọ oko, oníkálukú a gbé tiẹ̀.


Rather than bend backwards, the crab's claws will break.


Kàkà kí iga akàn ó padà sẹyìn, a kán.


Rather than the lion serving as carrier for the leopard, each will hunt separately.


Kàkà kí kìnìún ṣe akápò ẹkùn, ọlọ́dẹ a mú ọdẹ ẹ̀ ṣe.


The toad is only slightly taller than the earth.


Kékeré lọ̀pọ̀lọ́ fi ga ju ilẹ̀ lọ.


Let the slave know him/herself as a slave; let the pawn know him/herself as a pawn; let the well born person know him/herself as the child of God.


Kí ẹrú mọ ara ẹ̀ lẹ́rú; kí ìwọ̀fà mọ ara ẹ̀ níwọ̀fà; kí ọmọlúwàbí mọ ara ẹ̀ lẹ́rú Ọlọ́run ọba.


Responsibility does not devolve on the father only for him to say it is his son's duty.


Kì í dọwọ́ọ baba kó ló di ọwọ́ ọmọ.


What is the point of bragging on account of an ass which when one rides on it one's feet drag on the ground?


Kí ni àǹfàní kẹ̀tẹ̀kẹ̀tẹ̀ lára kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ à-gùn-fẹsẹ̀-wọ́lẹ̀?


What does a bald man want in the stall of the barber?


Kí ni apárí ń wá ní ìsọ̀ onígbàjámọ̀?


What did Dáàró own before he claimed he was robbed?


Kí ni Dáàró ní kó tó sọ pé olèé kó òun?


What is it that the seller of gbégbé leaves has to sell that she complains that the market is slow?


Kí ni eléwée gbégbé ń tà tí ó ń sọ pé ọjà ò tà?


What would take the vulture to the stall of the hair dresser?


Kí ni ìbá mú igún dé ọ̀dọ̀ọ onídìrí?


"What has the bachelor to feel superior about, such that while he is roasting yams he is whistling the song, ""What one does fills them with jealousy""?"


"Kí ni ó yá àpọ́n lórí tó fiṣu síná tó ń súfèé pé ""bí a ti ń ṣe ni inú ń bí wọn""?"


What is the calabash owner doing that the china plate owner cannot do?


Kí ni onígbá ń ṣe tí aláwo ò lè ṣe?


What can the head do that the shoulder cannot do? The shoulder carried a load and earned three hundred cowries; the head sold its own for two hundred and twenty cowries.


Kí ni orí ń ṣe tí èjìká ò lè ṣe? Èjìká ru ẹrù ó gba ọ̀ọ́dúnrún; orí ta tiẹ̀ ní ogúnlúgba.


What use do the people of Ilorin have for Ahmadu? Even goats are so named.


Kí ni wọ́n ti ń ṣe Àmọ́dù nÍlọrin? Ewúrẹ́ ń jẹ́ bẹ́ẹ̀.


Durable hand-woven cloth is the material for shiftless people; loom-woven cloth is the material for the elders; whichever elder cannot afford loom-woven cloth should strive for durable hand-woven cloth.


Kíjìpá laṣọ ọ̀lẹ; òfì laṣọ àgbà; àgbà tí ò ní tòfì a rọ́jú ra kíjìpá.


He does not buy, he has no money, yet he sits sulkily before the seller of bean fritters.


Kò rà, kò lówó lọ́wọ́, ó ń wú tutu níwájú onítumpulu.


"There is no one pleased ""by one's success"" except one's head."


Kò sí ẹni tó dùn mọ́ àfi orí ẹni.


Without-me-in-an-assembly-the-assembly-is-not-complete deceives only himself/herself.


Kò sí mi lájọ àjọ ò kún: ara ẹ̀ ló tàn jẹ.


There is nothing Ṣango can do to enable itself to rage in a drought.


Kò sí ohun tí Ṣàngó lè ṣe kó jà lẹ́ẹ̀rùn.


He-was-not-at-home never fails to prove his valor with his mouth.


Kò-sí-nílé kì í jagun ẹnu tì.


Swiftly-consumed-swiftly-consumed is the way a dog laps up water.


Kó-tán-kó-tán lajá ń lá omi.


The butterfly likens itself to a bird, but it cannot do what a bird can do.


Labalábá fi ara ẹ̀ wẹ́yẹ, kò lè ṣe ìṣe ẹyẹ.


Ash mixed with water likens itself to indigo dye, but it cannot do what the dye can do; the large red bean likens itself to corn.


Lábúlábú fara wé aró, kò lè ṣe bí aró; pòpòǹdó fara wé àgbàdo.


Were So-and-So alive he would transform himself into a brown monkey; did the person who preceded him ever transform himself into any kind of monkey?


Lágbájá ìbá wà a di ìjímèrè; ẹni tó bá níwájú di oloyo?


A limp is no great asset for a person wishing to stop a fight; a masquerader's child is no easy playmate.


Láká-ǹ-láká ò ṣéé fi làjà; ọmọ eégún ò ṣéé gbé ṣeré.


One does not wear ẹtù cap as a matter of course; only certain people have heads suited for such a cap.


Lásán kọ́ là ń dé ẹtù; ó ní ẹni tórí ẹ̀ ń bá ẹtù mu.


Cattle egrets never lay black eggs; only white eggs do they lay.


Lékèélékèé ò yé ẹyin dúdú; funfun ni wọ́n ńy é ẹyin wọn.


Save face with members of your household and save face with complete strangers, such a person loses face with himself/herself.


Má tẹ̀ẹ́ lọ́wọ́ oníle, má tẹ̀ẹ́ lọ́wọ́ àlejò; lọ́wọ́ ara ẹni la ti ń tẹ́.


A cow may not boast in the presence of a horse.


Màlúù ò lè lérí níwájú ẹṣin.


Lightning is no good for roasting yams.


Mànàmáná ò ṣéé sun iṣu.


"""Were I at Ọ̀yọ́ I would own a horse by now"": he should have numerous sheep to his name in this town."


"""M̀bá wà lỌ́yọ̀ọ́ mà ti so ẹṣin""; àgùntàn-an rẹ̀ á níye nílẹ̀yí."


"How large a community is Ejigbo that one of its settlements is named Ayegbogbo ""The whole world""?"


Mélòó lÈjìgbò tí ọ̀kan ẹ̀ ń jẹ́ Ayé-gbogbo?


I have become old and wise, but childish play has not ceased to appeal to me.


Mo dàgbà mo dàgó, aré ọmọdé ò tán lójúù mi.


Having grown old I miss youthfulness.


Mo dàgbà tán èweé wù mí.


"""I am beautiful, I am beautiful!"" has ugliness as its conclusion."


"""Mo dára, mo dára,"" àìdára ní ń pẹ̀kun ẹ̀."


"""I am all-wise, I am all-knowing"" kept the wasp from having as much venom as the bee."


"""Mo gbọ́n tán, mo mọ̀ràn tán"" kì í jẹ́ kí agbọ́n lóró bí oyin."


"and also ""Mo mọ̀-ọ́ gún,"" . . ."


"Compare ""Mo mọ̀-ọ́ gùn"" . . ."


"""Mo mọ̀-ọ́ tan,."" . ."


"Compare ""Mo gbọ́n tán, . . . """


"also ""Mo gbọ́n tan, . . . """


Compare the preceding entry,


"and ""Mo mỌ̀bàrà..."""


"""Mo mọ̀-ọ́ gùn, . . ."""


"Compare ""Mo gbọ́n tan, . . . """


"""I am full"" means ""I am full""; ""I decline"" means ""I decline""; eating with abandon, that is the father of all greediness."


"""Mo yó"" ń jẹ́ ""mo yó,"" ""mo kọ̀"" ń jẹ́ ""mo kọ̀""; jẹun ǹṣó, àgbà ọ̀kánjúwà ni."


"""I will get my money's worth out of these trousers""; the grown man only winds up exposing his bare buttocks to the world."


"""N óò gba owóò mi lára ṣòkòtò yìí""; ìdí làgbàlagbà ń ṣí sílẹ̀."


"The humpback's child has presented a formidable dilemma: he cries, ""Mother, mother, carry me on your back!"""


"Nláńlá lọmọ abuké ń dá: ó ní ""Ìyá, ìyá, òun ó pọ̀n."""


Where did you discard all other names and picked for yourself the name Làm̀bòròkí?


Níbo lo forúkọ sí tí ò ń jẹ́ Làm̀bòròkí?


When we were stacking the corn we did not stack some for the brown rat.


Nígbà tí à ń to ọkà a ò to ti ẹmọ́ si.


Since you claim to be a seasoned rider, how come your horse has gone lame?


Nígbà tí o mọ̀ ọ́ gùn, ẹṣin ẹ ẹ́ ṣe ṣẹ́ orókún?


Since when did a tiger-hide sac become a thing a child uses to harvest okro?


Nígbà wo làpò ẹkùn-ún di ìkálá fọ́mọdé?


Salt loses its good quality and becomes like saltpeter.


Ó bọ́ lọ́wọ́ iyọ̀ ó dòbu.


The moon loses its esteem and shines all night long.


Ó bọ́ lọ́wọ́ oṣù ó dàràn-mọ́jú.


Your eyes flinch not and your mouth is unstoppable, but you do not know nine times nine.


O dájú dánu, o ò mọ ẹ̀sán mẹ́sàn-án.


Not until the gathering of trousers will Ládugbo know itself as a miscreant.


Ó di àwùjọ ṣòkòtò kí ládugbó tó mọ ara rẹ̀ Lábèṣè.


It will not be until the end of days before the humpback realizes that a hump is not a child.


Ó di ọjọ́ alẹ́ kábuké tó mọ̀ pé iké kì í ṣọmọ.


You do not know what black eyed peas are like for dinner.


O kò mọ ẹ̀wà lóńjẹ à-jẹ-sùn.


You are reduced to eating last year's antelope in your stew, and yet you claim to have attained the height of good fortune.


Ò ń jàgbọ̀nrín èṣín lọ́bẹ̀, o ní o ti tó tán.


Because you are carrying a huge pot you strut; what would one say to the person carrying the divinity Yemoja?


O ru ládugbó ò ń rerá; kí ni ká sọ fẹ́ni tó ru Òrìṣàa Yemọja?


It might be seemly for a masquerader to chase one off a corn farm, but it is not seemly for Pákọ̀kọ̀ to chase one in the middle of town.


Ó tọ́ kí eégún léni lóko àgbàdo, èwo ni ti Pákọ̀kọ̀ láàrin ìlú?


Everybody has a right to say the yams are not well cooked, but not the bàtá drummer.


Ó yẹ ẹni gbogbo kó sọ pé iṣu ò jiná, kò yẹ alubàtá.


It is fitting for everybody to bargain to reduce the cost of dyeing clothes, but not the bed wetter.


Ó yẹ ẹni gbogbo kó dínwó aró, kò yẹ atọ̀ọ́lé.


"Everyone can justifiably say, ""God, who has left nothing undone,"" but not a eunuch."


"Ó yẹ ẹni gbogbo kó sọ pé ""Ọlọ́run a-ṣèkan-má-kù,"" kò yẹ akúkó."


It is only in a small stream that the crab can make its oil; when it becomes huge and swift the river sweeps the crab away.


Odò kékeré lalákàn-án ti lè fọ́ epo; bó bá di àgàdàm̀gbá tán, odò a gbé alákàn lọ.


"The law will assert itself, ""as in the case of"" a junior wife flogging the child of the senior wife."


Òfin ni yó sọ ara ẹ̀; ìyàwó tí ń na ọmọ ìyáálé.


The war that the two-eyed person saw and fled is the same the one-eyed person vows he will join.


Ogun tí olójú méjì rí sá ni olójú kan ní òún ń lọ jà.


Only two things are proper for a warrior: the warrior goes to war and drives the enemy off; the warrior goes to war and dies in battle.


Ohun méjì ló yẹ Ẹ̀ṣọ́: Ẹ̀ṣọ́ jà, ó lé ogun; Ẹ̀ṣọ́ jà ó kú sógun.


What one sells is what one eats; that does not apply to the kerosene seller.


Ohun tí à ń tà là ń jẹ; kì í ṣe ọ̀rọ̀ oní-kẹrosíìnì.


Whatever the ant is able to carry is what it says is its full measure.


Ohun tí eèrá bá lè gbé ní ń pè ní ìgànnìkó.


That which the cricket attempted and broke a thigh, the aláàńtètè asks to be permitted to attempt.


Ohun tí ìrẹ̀ẹ́ ṣe tó fi kán lápá, aláàńtèté ní kí wọ́n jẹ́ kí òun ó ṣe è.


A thing that is not worth the least amount of money should not prove a hardship for an elder.


Ohun tí kò tó okòó kì í jẹ àgbà níyà.


What the imbecile does to himself is far worse than what he does to others.


Ohun tí wèré fi ń s̩e ara ẹ̀, ó pọ̀ ju ohun tó fi ń ṣẹ ọmọ ẹlòmíràn lọ.


"One boasts only about things proper to boast about; whoever heard of the boast, ""By this time yesterday I had given my parent-in-law the beating of his life.""?"


"Ohun tó ṣeé faga là ń faga sí; èwo ni,""Ìwòyí àná mo ti na ànaà mi fága-fàga""?"


It is in a visitor's presence that one gets into debt; it is in her absence that one repays the debt.


Ojú àlejò la ti ń jẹ gbèsè; ẹ̀yìn-in ẹ̀ là ń san án.


The eye, father of the body; nothing is as valuable as the eye; nothing is as difficult to achieve as the status of elder.


Ojú baba ara; awọ́n bí ojú; aṣòró dà bí àgbà.


It is not in the presence of the flame that water-yam grows hair.


Ojú iná kọ́ lewùrà ń hurun.


The colobus monkey is never so reduced in circumstances that it becomes a land-hugging creature; the vulture is never so badly off that it becomes the equal of a chicken.


Ojú kì í pọ́n ẹdun kó dẹni ilẹ̀; ìṣẹ́ kì í ṣẹ́ igún kó di ojúgbà adìẹ.


A head of a household is never so hard up that he sweeps his compound with his bare hands.


Ojú kì í pọ́n baálé ilé kó fọwọ́ gbálẹ̀ ilé ẹ̀.


An Ifá diviner-priest is never so hard up that he asks for yesterday's sacrifice.


Ojú kì í pọ́n babaláwo kó bèèrè ẹbọ àná.


A dead person cannot be so desperate as to appeal to a living person for deliverance.


Ojú kì í pọ́n òkú ọ̀run kó ní kí ará ayé gba òun.


One should not become so desperate that one takes one's younger sister as wife.


Ojú kì í pọ́nni ká fàbúrò ẹni ṣaya.


One should never be so benighted that one covers oneself in rags.


Ojú kì í pọnni ká fàkísà bora.


One's circumstances do not so deteriorate that one becomes red in teeth.


Ojú kì í pọ́nni ká pọ́n léyín.


A person only newly acquainted with wealth; he has a son and names him Ọlaniyọnu.


Ojú ò rọ́lá rí; ó bímọ ẹ̀ ó sọ ọ́ ní Ọláníyọnu.


The medicine man lacks all shame, he announces that his parent-in-law is dying.


Ojú ò ti oníṣègùn, ó ní àna òun ń kú lọ.


Shame upon the wasp; the wasp has a nest but no honey.


Ojú ti agbọ́ń agbọ́n láfà kò léro.


The giant bush rat and its child become equals in their hole; the mother cracks palm-nuts with its teeth, and the child does the same thing.


Òkété pẹ̀lú ọmọ ẹ̀ẹ́ di ọgbọọgba sínú ihò; nígba tí ìyá ń feyín pàkùrọ́, ọmọ náà ń feyín pa á pẹ̀lú.


"Darkness does not know who deserves deference; it consulted the oracle Ifá for ""Who might you be?"""


"Òkùnkùn ò mẹni ọ̀wọ̀; ó dÍfá fún ""Ìwọ́ tá nìyẹn""?"


A person who has only one wife does not form a circle for a fight.


Olóbìnrin kan kì í pagbo ìja.


A one-eyed person does not attempt standing somersaults.


Olójúkan kì í tàkìtì òró.


The omele drummer does not vow that there will be an earth-shaking performance on the morrow.


Olómele kì í sọ pé igi yó dàá lóde lọ́la.


The rich man eats slowly and at leisure; the poor person eats fast and with anxiety; the poor man who keeps company with a wealthy man is exceeding his station.


Olówó jẹun jẹ́jẹ́; òtòṣì jẹun tìpà-tìjàn; òtòṣì tí ń bá ọlọ́rọ̀ rìn, akọ ojú ló ń yá.


It is a rich person that keeps company with a wealthy person; only people of equal standing play together.


Olówó ní ń bá ọlọ́rọ̀ọ́ rìn; ẹgbẹ́ ní ń bá ẹgbẹ́ ṣeré.


It is a rich person that eats pounded yams worth two thousand cowries.


Olówó ní ń jẹ iyán ẹgbàá.


A minor chief should not act garrulously in the presence of a king.


Olóyè kékeré kì í ṣe fáàárí níwájú ọba.


Today, the antelope falls into the ditch; tomorrow, the antelope falls into the ditch; is the antelope the only animal in the forest?


Òní, ẹtú jìnfìn, ọ̀la, ẹtú jìnfìn; ẹtu nìkan lẹran tó wà nígbó?


The shameless person does not know what is fitting; the shameless person is off to raid a farm, and he takes his wife along; the husband steals staple yams, the wife steals wateryams.


Oníbàjẹ́ ò mọra; oníbàjẹ́ ń lọ sóko olè ó mú obìnrin lọ; ọkọ́ kó akọṣu, ìyàwó kó ewùrà.


"The bàtá drummer does not enter a mosque and ask ""Where is the Imam?"""


"Oníbàtá kì í wọ mọ́ṣáláṣí kó ní ""Lèmámù ńkọ́?"""


"The excessively attentive visitor ""who"" extends hospitality greetings to the host."


Onífunra àlejò tí ń tètè ṣe onílé pẹ̀lẹ́.


The person with goitre offers a ridiculously low price for beads; were the beads seller to accept her offer she would have no neck to string the beads around.


Onígẹ̀gẹ́ fìlẹ̀kẹ̀ dọ́pọ̀; onílẹ̀kẹ̀ ìbá gbowo, ko rọ́rùn fìlẹ̀kẹ̀ so.


The host is eating the fruits of the gbìngbindo tree; the visitor asks to be treated to some black-eyed peas.


Onílé ń jẹ èso gbìngbindò; alèjòó ní kí wọ́n ṣe òun lọ́wọ́ kan ẹ̀wà.


The Ṣàngó worshipper who dances and does not shake his skirt: he does not disgrace Ṣàngó but himself.


OníṢàngó tó jó tí kò gbọn yẹ̀rì: àbùkùu Ṣàngó kọ́; àbùkù ara ẹ̀ ni.


Facebook's role in Brexit - and the threat to democracy.


Ipa Facebook nínú Brexit - àti ìdẹ́rùbà rẹ̀ sí ìjọba àwarawa.


"So, on the day after the Brexit vote, in June 2016, when Britain woke up to the shock of discovering that we're leaving the European Union, my editor at the ""Observer"" newspaper in the UK asked me to go back to South Wales, where I grew up, and to write a report."


"Nítorí náà, ní ọjọ́ kejì lẹ́yìn ìbo Brexit, ní oṣù Òkúdù ọdún 2016, nígbà tí orílẹ̀-ède Brítain jí sí ìjayà mímọ̀ wí pé à ń kúrò Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀-Europe sílẹ̀, olóòtú mi ní ìwé-ìròyin ""Observer"" ní orílẹ̀-ède UK sọ fún mi wí pé kí n padà sí South Wales, níbi tí mo ti ṣe kékeré, kí n sì kọ ìjábọ̀."


And so I went to a town called Ebbw Vale.


Mo bá lọ sí ìlú kan tí wọ́n ń pè ní Ebbw Vale.


Here it is.


Òun rè é.


It's in the South Wales Valleys, which is this quite special place.


"Ó wà ní South Wales Valleys, t""ó jẹ́ ibi àkànṣe tí ó pa lọ́wọ́ báyìí."


So it's had this very, sort of rich, working-class culture, and it's famous for its Welsh male voice choirs and rugby and its coal.


Nítorí náà ó ti ní àṣà ọ̀wọ́-òṣìṣẹ́, ibi ọrọ̀, ó sì gbajúmọ̀ fún ohùn àwọn ẹgbẹ́ akọrin olóhùn ọkùnrin Welsh àti bọ́ọ̀lù àláfọwọ́-fẹsẹ̀ gbá àti èédú rẹ̀.


But when I was a teenager, the coal mines and the steelworks closed, and the entire area was devastated.


Ṣùgbọ́n nígbà tí mo wà ni ọ̀gọ̀ṣọ́, ìwakùsà èédú àti iṣẹ́-ọnà irinlílọ̀ di títìpa, tí gbogbo agbègbè náà sì ti bàjẹ́.


"And I went there because it had one of the highest ""Leave"" votes in the country."


"Nígbà tí mo sì lọ síbẹ̀ nítorí ó ní ọ̀kan lára ìbo ""Kúrò"" tó pọ̀jù lọ ní orílẹ̀-èdè náà."


Sixty-two percent of the people here voted to leave the European Union.


"Ìdá méjì-lé-lọ́gọ́ta àwọn ènìyàn níbí l""ó dìbò láti fi Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe sílẹ̀."


And I wanted to know why.


Mo sì fẹ́ mọ ìdí rẹ̀.


When I got there, I was just a bit taken aback, because the last time I went to Ebbw Vale, it looked like this.


Nígbà tí mo débẹ̀, ó yà mí lẹ́nu díẹ̀, nítorí ìgbà tí mo lọ sí Ebbw Vale kẹ́yìn, ó rí báyìí.


And now, it looks like this.


Ṣùgbọ́n nísìnyìí, ó rí báyìí.


This is a new 33-million-pound college of further education that was mostly funded by the European Union.


Ilé-ẹ̀kọ́ gíga oní owó pọ́ùn àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ 33 tuntun fún ìtẹ̀síwájú ètò-ẹ̀kọ́ tí púpọ̀ nínú owó yẹn wá láti ọwọ́ Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe.


And this is the new sports center that's at the middle of 350-million-pound regeneration project that's being funded by the European Union.


Ibi eré-ìdárayá tuntun rè é tí ó wà láàárín iṣẹ́ àkànṣe ìsọdọ̀tun oní àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ 350 owó pọ́ùn tí Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe ń ṣe onígbọ̀wọ rẹ̀.


And this is the new 77-million-pound road-improvement scheme, and there's a new train line, a new railway station, and they're all being funded by the European Union.


Èyí ni ètò àtúnṣe ọ̀nà tuntun oní owó póùn àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ 77, ojú ọ̀nà ọkọ̀-ojú-irin tuntun náà wà, ibùdókọ̀ àwọn ọkọ̀ ojúurin tuntun, tí ó jẹ́ wí pé Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe ló ń ṣe onígbọ̀wọ gbogbo rẹ̀.


And it's not as if any of this is a secret, because there's big signs like this everywhere.


Kì í sì ṣe wí pé ìkankan nínú àwọn wọ̀nyìí jẹ́ àṣìírí, nítorí àwọn àpẹẹrẹ ǹlá bí èyí wà káàkiri.


[EU Funds: Investing in Wales]


[Owó Ìgbọ̀wọ́ EU: ìdókòwò nínú Wales].


I had this sort of weird sense of unreality, walking around the town.


Mò ti ní ìmọ̀lára àjòjì yìí nípa àìjóòótọ́ bí mo ṣe ń rìn káàkiri ìlú náà.


And it came to a head when I met this young man in front of the sports center.


Ó wá sími lórí nígbà tí mo pàde ọ̀dọ́mọkùnrin kan níwáju ibi eré ìdárayá náà.


And he told me that he had voted to leave, because the European Union had done nothing for him.


Ó sọ fún mi wí pé òún ti dìbò láti kúrò, nítorí Àjọ-ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe ò ṣe nǹkankan fún òun.


He was fed up with it.


Ó ti sú u.


And all around town, people told me the same thing.


Yíká gbogbo ìlú, oun kan náà ni àwọn ènìyàn ń sọ fún mi.


They said that they wanted to take back control, which was one of the slogans in the campaign.


"Wọ́n ní àwọn fẹ́ gba ìṣàkóso padà, èyí t""ó jẹ́ ọ̀kan lára ìpèdè nínú ìpolongo náà."


And they told me that they were most fed up with the immigrants and with the refugees.


Wọ́n sọ fún mi wí pé ti àwọn àṣíkiri àti àwọn ogúnléndé ni ó tojú sú àwọn jù.


They'd had enough.


Àwọ́n ti rí tó.


Which was odd.


Léyìí tó ṣájòjì.


Because walking around, I didn't meet any immigrants or refugees.


Torí bí mo ṣe rìn káàkiri, mi ò rí àṣíkiri tàbí ogúnléndé kankan.


I met one Polish woman who told me she was practically the only foreigner in town.


Mo pàde arábìnrin ọmọ Poland kan tí ó sọ fún mi wí pé òun nìkan ni àjòjì tó wà nínú ìlú náà.


And when I checked the figures, I discovered that Ebbw Vale actually has one of the lowest rates of immigration in the country.


"Nígbà tí mo wo iye rẹ̀, mo rí i wí pé Ebbw Vale ní ọ̀kan lára ìgbéléwọ̀n ìṣílọ-sí-ìlú-òkèèrè-mìíràn t""ó kéré jùlọ ní orílẹ̀-èdè náà."


And so I was just a bit baffled, because I couldn't really understand where people were getting their information from.


Ó fa ìpòrúru ọkàn díẹ̀ fún mi, nítorí mi ò ní ò ye ibi tí àwọn ènìyán ti ń gba ìfitónilétí wọn.


Because it was the right-wing tabloid newspapers which printed all these stories about immigration.


"Nítorí ìwé-ìroyìn apá-ọ̀tun l""ó ṣe àtẹ̀jáde gbogbo ìròyìn nípa ìṣílọ-sí-ìlú-òkèèrè-mìíràn wọ̀nyí."


And this is a very much left-wing Labour stronghold.


Tí èyí sì fi púpọ̀ wà ní sàkání apá-òsì Iṣẹ́-ṣíṣe.


But then after the article came out, this woman got in touch with me.


Ṣùgbọ́n lẹ́yìn tí àpilẹ̀kọ náà jáde, obìnrin yìí kàn sí mi.


And she was from Ebbw Vale, and she told me about all this stuff that she'd seen on Facebook.


"Ó wá láti Ebbw Vale, ó sọ fún mi nípa gbogbo àwọn nǹkan yìí t""ó ti rí lórí Facebook."


"I was like, ""What stuff?"


"Mo béèrè wí pé, ""nǹkan wo?"


""" And she said it was all this quite scary stuff about immigration, and especially about Turkey."


"""Ó sọ wí pé gbogbo àwọn nǹkan abanilẹ́rù yìí nípa ìṣílọ-sí-ìlú-òkèèrè-mìíràn, pàápàá jùlọ nípa orílẹ̀-èdeTurkey."


So I tried to find it.


Torí náà mo gbìyànjú láti sàwárí rẹ̀.


But there was nothing there.


Ṣùgbọ́n kò sí nǹkankan níbẹ̀.


Because there's no archive of ads that people had seen or what had been pushed into their news feeds.


Nítorí kò sí àká ti ìpolówó tí àwọn ènìyán ti rí tàbí ǹnkan tí wọ́n ti tì sí ìkànnì afúnni níròyin wọn.


No trace of anything, gone completely dark.


Kò sí ìtọsẹ̀ nǹkankan, ó ti dúdú pátápátá.


And this referendum that will have this profound effect forever on Britain -- it's already had a profound effect: the Japanese car manufacturers that came to Wales and the north east to replace the mining jobs -- they are already going because of Brexit.


Ìbò yìí tí yóò nípa ńlá lára Britain títí-láyé -- ó wulẹ̀ ti nípa ńlá: àwọn ará Japan tí wọ́n ń ṣe ọkọ̀ ilẹ̀ tà tí wọ́n wá sí orílẹ̀-èdè Wales àti àríwá ìlà-oòrùn láti rọ́pò iṣẹ́ ìwakùsà -- wọ́n ti ń lọ nítorí Brexit.


And this entire referendum took place in darkness, because it took place on Facebook.


Gbogbo ìbò yìí wáyé nínú òkùnkùn, nítorí ó wáyé lórí Facebook.


And what happens on Facebook stays on Facebook, because only you see your news feed, and then it vanishes, so it's impossible to research anything.


Nǹkan tó bá sì ṣẹlẹ̀ lórí Facebook yóò dúró sórí Facebook, nítorí ìwọ nìkan lò ń rí afúnni níròyin rẹ, yóó sì di ofò, nítórí náà kò ṣe é ṣe láti ṣèwádìí nǹkankan.


So we have no idea who saw what ads or what impact they had, or what data was used to target these people.


Torí náà a ò mọ̀ ẹni tí ó rí irú ìpolówó tàbí ipa tí wọ́n ní, tàbí ìwífún-alálàyé tí ó jẹ́ lílò láti darí ìpolówó sí àwọn ènìyàn wọ̀nyí.


Or even who placed the ads, or how much money was spent, or even what nationality they were.


"Tàbí ta ni ẹni t""ó fi ìpolówó náà síbẹ̀, tàbí èélòó lowó tí wọ́n ná, tàbí ọmọ orílẹ̀-èdè tí wọ́n jẹ́."


But Facebook does.


Ṣùgbọ́n Facebook mọ̀.


Facebook has these answers, and it's refused to give them to us.


Facebook ní àwọn ìdáhùn wọ̀nyí, ó sì kọ̀ láti kó wọn fún wa.


Our parliament has asked Mark Zuckerberg multiple times to come to Britain and to give us these answers.


Àwọn aṣòfin wa ti sọ fún Mark Zuckerberg lọ́pọ̀ ìgbà pé kó wá sí orílẹ̀-èdè Britain láti wá fún wa ní àwọn ìdáhùn wọ̀nyí.


And every single time, he's refused.


Ní àsìkò kọ̀ọ̀kan, ó kọ̀ jálẹ̀.


And you have to wonder why.


"Tí ènìyàn sì ní láti wòye oun t""ó fa sábàbí"


Because what I and other journalists have uncovered is that multiple crimes took place during the referendum.


Nítorí nǹkan tí èmi àti àwọn akọ̀ròyìn mìíràn ti wú jáde ni wí pé ọ̀kẹ́ àìmọye ìwà-ọ̀daràn ló wáyé lásíkò ìbò náà.


And they took place on Facebook.


Wọ́n sì wáyé lórí Facebook.


It's because in Britain, we limit the amount of money that you can spend in an election.


Ìdí ni wí pé ní ilẹ̀ Britain, a fi gbèdéke sí iye owó tí ènìyàn lè ná nínú ìbò.


And it's because in the 19th century, people would walk around with literally wheelbarrows of cash and just buy voters.


"Ìdí sì ni wí pé ní ọ̀rún-ọdún 19, láwòmọ lítírésọ̀ àwọn ènìyàn máa ń rìn káàkiri pẹ̀lú kẹ̀kẹ́-akẹ́rù-ẹlẹ́sẹ̀-kan t""ó kún fún owó láti ra àwọn olùdìbò."


So we passed these strict laws to stop that from happening.


"Torí náà a ṣé àwọn òfin t""ó múná wọ̀nyí láti dẹ́kun ìyẹn kí ó má wáyé."


But those laws don't work anymore.


Ṣùgbọ́n àwọn òfin wọ̀nyẹn kò ṣiṣẹ́ mọ́.


This referendum took place almost entirely online.


Ìbò yìí wáyé lápapọ̀ lórí ẹ̀rọ ayélukára-bí-ajere.


And you can spend any amount of money on Facebook or on Google or on YouTube ads and nobody will know, because they're black boxes.


Ènìyàn sì lè ná owó iye-kí-ye lórí Facebook tàbí lórí Google tàbí ìpolówó lórí YouTube tí ẹnikẹ́ni ò ní mọ̀, nítorí àwọn ohun tí ó fara sin ni wọ́n.


And this is what happened.


"Ohun t""ó ṣẹlẹ̀ rè é."


We've actually got no idea of the full extent of it.


A ò ní ìmọ̀ kankan nípa bó ṣe tó ní kíkún.


"But we do know that in the last days before the Brexit vote, the official ""Vote Leave"" campaign laundered nearly three quarters of a million pounds through another campaign entity that our electoral commission has ruled was illegal, and it's referred it to the police."


"Ṣùgbọ́n a mọ̀ wí pé ní àwọn ọjọ́ t""ó kẹ́yìn kí ìbò Brexit ó tó bẹ̀rẹ̀, ìpolongo gangan ""Dìbo Kúrò"" fẹ́rẹ̀ẹ́ kó ìdá mẹ́ta àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ owó póùn kan mì nípasẹ̀ ìpolongo mìíràn tí àjọ elétò ìdìbò wa ti pàṣẹ pé kò bófinmu, tí ó sì tari rẹ̀ sí akoto àwọn ọlọ́pàá."


"And with this illegal cash, ""Vote Leave"" unleashed a fire hose of disinformation."


"Pẹ̀lú owó tí ò bófinmu yìí, ""Dìbo Kúrò"" ṣe ìtúsílẹ̀ ọ̀pá ìpaná ìfitónilétí-aṣinilọ́nà."


Ads like this.


Àwọn ìpolówó bí èyí.


[Turkey's 76m people joining the EU]


[Àádọ́ta-Ọ̀kẹ́ 76 àwọn ènìyan orílẹ̀-èdè Turkey tí wọ́n ń darapọ̀ mọ́ EU].


This is a lie, it's a total lie.


Irọ́ ni èyí, irọ́ pátápátá ni.


Turkey is not joining the European Union.


Orílẹ̀-èdè Turkey ò darapọ̀ mọ́ Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe.


There's not even any discussions of it joining the European Union.


Kò ti ẹ̀ sí ìjíròrò kankan nípa rẹ̀ pé ó fẹ́ darapọ̀ mọ́ Àjọ-Ìgbìmọ Ilẹ̀ Europe.


And most of us, we never saw these ads, because we were not the target of them.


Ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ wa, a ò rí ìpolówó yìí rárá, nítorí àwa kọ́ ni wọ́n ń darí rẹ̀ sí.


"""Vote Leave"" identified a tiny sliver of people who it identified as persuadable, and they saw them."


"""Dìbo Kúrò"" ṣèdámọ̀ àwọn ènìyàn díẹ̀ t""ó ṣèdámọ̀ wọn gẹ́gẹ́ bí ẹni tí a lè yí-lọ́kàn-padà, wọ́n sì rí wọn."


And the only reason we are seeing these now is because parliament forced Facebook to hand them over.


Ìdí kan pàtó tí a ṣe ń rí àwọn wọ̀nyí nísisìyí ni wí pé àwọn aṣòfin ti fipá mú Facebook láti kó wọn sílẹ̀.


"And maybe you think, ""Well, it was just a bit of overspending."


"Bóyá o rò wí pé, "" Dáradára, ìnákúnàá díẹ̀ ni ó jẹ́."


It's a few lies.


Irọ́ díẹ̀ ni.


""" But this was the biggest electoral fraud in Britain for 100 years."


""" Ṣùgbọ́n èyí ni ìbo jìbìtì t""ó tóbi jù nílẹ̀ Britain láàárín 100 ọdún."


In a once-in-a-generation vote that hinged upon just one percent of the electorate.


Ní ìbò ẹ̀kan-láàrín-ìran-kan tó gbára lé ìdá kan ṣoṣo àwọn olùdìbò.


And it was just one of the crimes that took place in the referendum.


"Ó jẹ́ ọ̀kan lára àwọn ìwà-ọ̀daràn t""ó wáyé nínú ìdìbò náà."


There was another group, which was headed by this man, Nigel Farage, the one to the right of Trump.


Ẹgbẹ́ kan tún wà, tí ọkùnrin yìí jẹ́ olórí wọn, Nigel Farage, èyí tó wà lápá ọ̀tun Trump.


"And his group, ""Leave."


"Ẹgbẹ́ rẹ̀, ""Kúrò ní EU"" -- òun náà rúfin bákan náà."


"EU"" -- it also broke the law."


Ó rúfin ètò-ìdìbo ilẹ̀ Britain àti ìwífún-alálàyé òfin Britain, wọ́n sì ń ṣe ìtọ́kasí rẹ̀ fún àwọn ọlọ́pà.


It broke British electoral laws and British data laws, and it's also being referred to the police.


Ọkùnrin yìí, Arron Banks, òun ló ṣe onígbọ̀wọ́ ìpolongo yìí.


And this man, Arron Banks, he funded this campaign.


Ní ọ̀rọ̀ tó yátọ̀ gédéngbé, wọ́n ń ṣe ìtọ́kasí rẹ̀ fún àwọn Àjọ tó ń rí sí Ìwà-ọ̀daràn Àpapọ̀ wa, tọ̀dọ tiwa tó ṣe déédéé FBI, nítorí àjọ elétò ìdìbo wa ti sọ wí pé àwọn ò mọ ibi tí owó rẹ̀ ti wá.


And in a completely separate case, he's being referred to our National Crime Agency, our equivalent of the FBI, because our electoral commission has concluded they don't know where his money came from.


Tàbí tó bá ṣe wí pé ọmọ ilẹ̀ Britain ni.


Or if it was even British.


Mi ò ti ẹ̀ ní mẹ́nu ba àwọn irọ́ tí Arron Banks ti sọ nípa àjọṣepọ̀ ìkọ̀kọ rẹ̀ pèlú ìjọba orílẹ̀-ède Russia.


And I'm not even going to go into the lies that Arron Banks has told about his covert relationship with the Russian government.


Àbí asìkò àjòji ìpàde Farage pẹ̀lú Julian Assange àti pẹ̀lu ọ̀rẹ́ Trump, Roger Stone, tí wọ́n ti fẹ̀sùn kàn, lẹ́sẹ̀kẹsẹ̀ ṣíwáju kí Wikileak tó ṣe àgbéjáde méjì ṣànkò-ṣànkò, léyìí tí méjééjì ṣe àǹfààní fún Trump.


Or the weird timing of Nigel Farage's meetings with Julian Assange and with Trump's buddy, Roger Stone, now indicted, immediately before two massive WikiLeaks dumps, both of which happened to benefit Donald Trump.


Ṣùgbọ́n mà á sọ fún ọ wí pé Brexit àti Trump jọ wọnú arawọn ni.


But I will tell you that Brexit and Trump were intimately entwined.


Okùnrin yìí sọ fúnmi wí pé Brexit ni àwokòtò-ìṣàyẹ̀wò fún Trump.


This man told me that Brexit was the petri dish for Trump.


A sì mọ̀ wí pé àwọn ènìyàn yìí kan náà, àwọn ilé-iṣẹ́ kan náà, ìwífún-alálàyé kan náà, ìlànà-ìṣe kan náà, ìṣàmúlò ìkórìra àti ìbẹ̀rù kan náà ni.


And we know it's the same people, the same companies, the same data, the same techniques, the same use of hate and fear.


Nǹkan tí wọ́n ń fi sóri Facebook nìyí.


This is what they were posting on Facebook.


Mi ò sì fẹ́ pe èyí gan-an nírọ́.


And I don't even want to call this a lie, [Immigration without assimilation equals invasion] because it feels more like a hate crime to me.


[ìṣílọ-sí-ìlú-òkèèrè-mìíràn láìsí ìgbaniwọlé túmọ̀ sí ìdótì] Nítorí ó jọ ìwà-ọ̀daràn ju ìkórìra lọ sí mi.


I don't have to tell you that hate and fear are being sown online all across the world.


Mi ò ní láti sọ fún yín wí pé ìkórìra àti ìbẹ̀rù ní wọ́n ń gbìn sórí ẹ̀rọ ayélukára káàkiri ayé.


Not just in Britain and America, but in France and in Hungary and Brazil and Myanmar and New Zealand.


Kì í ṣe ní orílẹ̀-ède Britain àti America nìkan, ṣùgbọ́n ní orílẹ̀-ède France àti Hungary àti Brazil àti Myanmar àti New Zealand.


And we know there is this dark undertow which is connecting us all globally.


A sì mọ̀ pé omi dúdú tó ń ṣàn kan wà tó ń so gbogbo wa pọ̀ lágbàyé.


And it is flowing via the technology platforms.


Ó ṣì ń ṣàn lórí àwọn gbàgede ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ.


But we only see a tiny amount of what's going on on the surface.


Ṣùgbọ́n díẹ̀ nínú nǹkan tó ń lọ lókè là ń rí.


And I only found out anything about this dark underbelly because I started looking into Trump's relationship to Farage, into a company called Cambridge Analytica.


"Mo rí nǹkankan nípa òkùnkùn tó wà lábẹ́-inú yìí torí mo ṣẹ̀ṣẹ̀ bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí í wo àjọṣepọ̀ t""ó wà láàárín Trump àti Farage ni, sínú ilé-iṣẹ́ kan tí wọ́n ń pè ní Cambrige Analytica."


And I spent months tracking down an ex-employee, Christopher Wiley.


Mo lo àìmọye oṣù tí mò ń tọpa òṣìṣẹ́-fẹ̀yìntì kan, Christopher Wiley.


And he told me how this company, that worked for both Trump and Brexit, had profiled people politically in order to understand their individual fears, to better target them with Facebook ads.


"Ó sì sọ fún mi bí ilé-iṣẹ́ yìí, t""ó ṣiṣẹ́ fún Trump àti Brexit, ti ṣe àkọsílẹ̀ àwọn ènìyàn ní ti òṣèlú láti lè lóye ìbẹ̀ru ẹnìkọ̀ọ̀kan wọn, láti lè darí ìpolówó Facebook sí wọn."


And it did this by illicitly harvesting the profiles of 87 million people from Facebook.


Ó sì ṣe èyí nípasẹ̀ kíkórè ìsọfúnni àwọn ènìyàn àádọ́ta-okẹ́ 87 lórí Facebook ní ọ̀nà àìbófinmu.


It took an entire year's work to get Christopher on the record.


Ó gba iṣẹ́ odidi ọdún kan gbáko láti lè mú Christopher sórí àkọsílẹ̀.


And I had to turn myself from a feature writer into an investigative reporter to do it.


Mo sì ní láti sọ ara mi di olùjábọ̀ ìwádìí ìtọpinpin láti akọ̀ròyìn láti lè ṣe é.


And he was extraordinarily brave, because the company is owned by Robert Mercer, the billionaire who bankrolled Trump, and he threatened to sue us multiple times, to stop us from publishing.


"Òun náà sì ní ìgboyà aláìlẹ́gbẹ́, nítorí Robert Mercer ni ó ni ilé-iṣẹ́ náà, ọlọ́rọ̀ t""ó ṣe onígbọ̀wọ fún Trump, ó sì dúkokò láti pè wá lẹ́jọ́ ní ọ̀pọ̀ ìgbà, láti dá àtẹ̀jáde wa dúró."


But we finally got there, and we were one day ahead of publication.


Ṣùgbọ́n a pàpà dé ibẹ̀, ó ku ọjọ́ kan kí á ṣe àtẹ̀jáde.


We got another legal threat.


A gba ìdúkokò ìpẹ̀lẹ́jọ́ mìíràn.


Not from Cambridge Analytica this time, but from Facebook.


Kì í ṣe láti Cambridge Analytica lásíkò yìí, ṣùgbọ́n láti Facebook.


It told us that if we publish, they would sue us.


Ó sọ fún wa wí pé tí a bá ṣe àtẹ̀jáde, wọ́n máa pè wá ní ẹjọ́.


We did it anyway.


A ṣáà ṣe é ṣá.


Facebook, you were on the wrong side of history in that.


Facebook, ihà tí ò dára nínú ìtàn ni o wà nínú ìyẹn.


And you were on the wrong side of history in this -- in refusing to give us the answers that we need.


O sì wà ní ihà tí ò dára nínú ìtàn èyí -- látàrí kíkọ̀ jálẹ̀ láti fún wa ní àwọn ìdáhùn tí a nílò.


And that is why I am here.


Ìdí nìyẹn tí mo fi wà níbí.


To address you directly, the gods of Silicon Valley.


Láti báa yín sọ̀rọ̀ tààrà, àwọn òòṣa ti Silicon Valley.


Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg and Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Jack Dorsey, and your employees and your investors, too.


Mark Zuckerberg àti Sheryl Sandberg àti Larry Page àti Sergy Brin àti Jack Dorsey, àti àwọn òṣìṣẹ yín àti àwọn olùdókoòwò yín, bákan náà.


Because 100 years ago, the biggest danger in the South Wales coal mines was gas.


"Nítorí 100 ọdún sẹ́yìn, ewu t""ó tóbi jù ní àwọn ìwa èédú ní South Wales ni afẹ́fẹ́ ìdáná."


Silent and deadly and invisible.


Dákẹ́ rọ́rọ́ àti tí-ń-ṣekú-pani tí a kò lè rí sójú.


It's why they sent the canaries down first to check the air.


Ìdí nìyí tí wọ́n fi rán àwọn ẹyẹ ìbákà lọ sínú ilẹ̀ láti kọ́kọ́ lọ yẹ afẹ́fẹ́ náà wò.


And in this massive, global, online experiment that we are all living through, we in Britain are the canary.


Nínú àyèwo orí ẹ̀rọ ayélukára ti àgbàyé tí ó tóbi tí à ń là kọjá lọ́wọ́ yìí, awa tí a wà ní orílẹ̀-ède Britain ni ẹyẹ ìbákà.


We are what happens to a western democracy when a hundred years of electoral laws are disrupted by technology.


"Àwa ni ohun t""ó ṣẹlẹ̀ sí ìjọba àwarawa ní ihà-ìwọ̀-oòrùn nígbà tí ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ ti ṣe ìdíwọ́ fún òfin ètò-ìdìbo ọgọ́run ọdún."


Our democracy is broken, our laws don't work anymore, and it's not me saying this, it's our parliament published a report saying this.


"Ìjọba àwarawa ti fọ́ yángá, àwọn òfin wa ò ṣiṣẹ́ mọ́, èmi kọ́ ni mò ń sọ èyí, àwọn aṣòfin wa ni wọ́n tẹ àtẹ̀jáde ìhìn t""ó ń sọ èyí."


This technology that you have invented has been amazing.


Ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ tí o ti ṣàpilẹ̀ṣe rẹ̀ yìí yanilẹ́nu.


But now, it's a crime scene.


Ṣùgbọ́n báyìí, ọ̀gangan-ibi-ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ ìwà-ọ̀daran ni.


And you have the evidence.


O sì ní ẹ̀rí.


And it is not enough to say that you will do better in the future.


Kò sì tó láti sọ wí pé o ó ṣe dáadáa lọ́jọ́ iwájú.


Because to have any hope of stopping this from happening again, we have to know the truth.


Torí láti ní ìrètí kankan nípa dídáwọ́ èyí dúró láti má ṣẹlẹ̀ mọ́, a ní láti mọ òtítọ́.


"And maybe you think, ""Well, it was just a few ads."


"Bóyá o sì ń rò, ""Ó dáa, àwọn ìpolówó díẹ̀ náà ni."


And people are smarter than that, right?


Àwọn ènìyán sì gbọ́n ju ìyẹn lọ, àbí?


""" To which I would say, ""Good luck with that."


"Ní èyí tí mo máa sọ wí pé, ""kòngẹ́ ire pẹ̀lú ìyẹn."


""" Because what the Brexit vote demonstrates is that liberal democracy is broken."


Nítorí nǹkan tí ìbo Brexit ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ ni wí pé ẹ̀tọ̀ ìjọba àwarawa ti fọ́.


And you broke it.


Ẹ̀yin lẹ si sì fọ́ ọ.


This is not democracy -- spreading lies in darkness, paid for with illegal cash, from God knows where.


"Èyí kì í ṣe ìjọba àwarawa -- fífọ́n irọ́ ká nínú ọ̀kùnkùn, tí wọ́n fi owó tí ò bófinmu san, láti ibi t""ó jẹ́ pé Ọlọ́run ló mọ̀."


It's subversion, and you are accessories to it.


Ìyípo ni, ẹ̀yin lẹ sì ṣe àtìlẹyìn fún un.


Our parliament has been the first in the world to try to hold you to account, and it's failed.


"Ilé aṣòfin wa jẹ́ àkọ́kọ́ ní gbogbo àgbáyé t""ó gbíyànjú láti mú u ọ ṣàláyé nǹkan tí ẹ ṣe, ó sì kùnà."


You are literally beyond the reach of British law -- not just British laws, this is nine parliaments, nine countries are represented here, who Mark Zuckerberg refused to come and give evidence to.


Ẹ ti kọjá àrọ́wọ́tó òfin ilẹ̀ Britain - kì í ṣe òfin Britain nìkan, ọ̀wọ́ aṣòfin mẹsàn-án rè é, orílẹ̀-èdè mẹ́sàn-án ni ó ní aṣojú níbí, tí Mark Zukerberg kọ̀ jálẹ̀ láti wá fi ẹ̀rí fún.


And what you don't seem to understand is that this is bigger than you.


Nǹkan tí ò sì yé e yín ni wí pé èyí tóbi jù ẹ̀yin gan-an lọ.


And it's bigger than any of us.


Ó sì tóbi ju ẹnìkànkan wa lọ.


"And it is not about left or right or ""Leave"" or ""Remain"" or Trump or not."


"Kì í ṣe nípa òsì tàbí ọ̀tún tàbí ""Kúrò"" tàbí ""Dúró"" tàbí Trump tàbí ẹlòmíràn."


It's about whether it's actually possible to have a free and fair election ever again.


Ó jẹ́ nípa bóyá ó ṣe é ṣe láti ní ètò-ìdìbò tí yóò lọ ní ìrọwọ́-rọṣẹ̀ mọ́.


Because as it stands, I don't think it is.


Tórí bó ṣe rí yìí, mi ò rò bẹ́ẹ̀.


And so my question to you is, is this what you want?


Ìbéèrè mi síi yín ni, ṣe nǹkan tí ẹ fẹ́ rèé?


Is this how you want history to remember you: as the handmaidens to authoritarianism that is on the rise all across the world?


Ṣé bí ẹ ṣe fẹ́ kí ìtàn ó rántíi yín rè é: gẹ́gẹ́ bi olùrànlọ́wọ́ fún ìjọba apàṣẹ wàá tó ń dìde káàkiri gbogbo àgbáyé?


Because you set out to connect people.


Nítorí ẹ bẹ̀rẹ̀ láti so àwọn ènìyàn pọ̀ ni.


And you are refusing to acknowledge that the same technology is now driving us apart.


Ẹ sì ń kọ̀ láti gbà pé ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ yìí kan náà ń pín wa níyà.


And my question to everybody else is, is this what we want: to let them get away with it, and to sit back and play with our phones, as this darkness falls?


Ìbéèrè mi sí gbogbo ènìyàn tókù ni pé, ṣé nǹkan tí a fẹ́ rè é: láti jẹ́ kí wọ́n mú u jẹ, ka sì jókòó ka máa fi ẹ̀rọ-ìbánisọ̀rọ wa ṣeré, bí òkùnkùn yìí ṣe ń kù?


The history of the South Wales Valleys is of a fight for rights.


Ìtan South Wales Valleys jẹ́ ti ìjà fún ẹ̀tọ́.


And this is not a drill -- it's a point of inflection.


Èyí kìí ṣe ìbáwí -- kókó àyípada ni.


Democracy is not guaranteed, and it is not inevitable, and we have to fight and we have to win and we cannot let these tech companies have this unchecked power.


Ìjọba àwarawa ò dájú, kò sì ṣe é fẹ́kù, a ní láti jà a sì ní láti borí a ò lè jẹ́ kí àwọn ilé-iṣẹ́ ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ ní agbára tí ò ṣe é yẹ̀ lọ́wọ́ wọ̀ yìí.


It's up to us -- you, me and all of us.


Ó dọwọ́ọ wa -- ìwọ, èmi àti gbogbo wa.


We are the ones who have to take back control.


Àwa la ní láti gba ìṣàkóso padà.


How we can make energy more affordable for low-income families.


Bí a ṣe lè jẹ́ kí agbára rọjú fún àwọn ẹbí tí owó tí ìpawó wọ̀lé wọn kéré.


So, as a child, I used to spend all of my time at my great-grandmother's house.


Gẹ́gẹ́ bí ọmọdé, mo máa ń lo gbogbo àsìkò mi ní ilé ìyá-àgbà ìyá mi.


On hot, humid, summer days, I would dash across the floor and stick my face in front of her only air conditioner.


Ní àwọn ọjọ́ tó bá gbóná, lásìkò ooru, mo máa sáré kọjá nílẹ̀ ma sì gbójú mi síwájú ẹ̀rọ amúlétutù wọn kan ṣoṣo.


But I didn't realize that that simple experience, though brief, was a privileged one in our community.


Ṣùgbọ́n mi ò mọ̀ pé ìrírí kékeré yẹn, bó tilẹ̀ jẹ́ péréte, jẹ́ àǹfààní kan ní àwùjọ wa.


Growing up, stories of next-door neighbors having to set up fake energy accounts or having to steal energy seemed normal to me.


"Nígbà tí mò ń dàgbà, ìtan àwọn aládùgbo nílé-kejì tí wọ́n ṣe àgbékalẹ̀ ayédèrú àpò àṣùwọn agbára tàbí tí wọ́n ní láti jí agbára jẹ́ nǹkan t""ó tọ́ sí mi."


During the winter, struggling to get warm, my neighbors would have no choice but to bypass the meter after their heat was shut off, just to keep their family comfortable for one more day.


Lásíkò òtútù, títiraka láti jẹ́ kí ará lọ́, àwọn aládùgbò mi ò ní àǹfààní kankan ju wí pé kí wọ́n pẹ́ mítà kọjá lẹ́yìn tí wọ́n bá ti pa oru wọn, láti lè fi ará dẹ ẹbí wọn fún ọjọ́ kan sí i.


These kinds of dangerous incidents can take root when people are faced with impossible choices.


Irú àwọn ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ tó léwu wọ̀nyí lè gbilẹ̀ nígbà tí àwọn ènìyàn bá ń kojú àwọn àǹfààní yíyàn tí ò ṣe é ṣe.


In the US, the average American spends three percent of their income on energy.


Ní orílẹ̀-ède US, ọ̀gbọ̀ ọmọ ilẹ̀ America máa ń ná ìdá mẹ́ta owó tí wọ́n ń gbà lórí agbára.


In contrast, low-income and rural populations can spend 20, even 30 percent of their income on energy.


Ní ìdàkejì, ìpawó wọlé tó kéré àti iye àwọn ènìyàn nígbèríko lè ná ìda ogún, kódà ọgbọ̀n nínú owó tí wọ́n ń gbà lórí agbára.


In 2015, this caused over 25 million people to skip meals to provide power to their homes.


Ní ọdún 2015, èyí jẹ́ kí àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ mẹ́ẹ̀dọ́gbọ̀n ènìyàn fi ebi panú láti pèse agbára ní ilé wọn.


This is when energy becomes a burden.


Àsìkò yìí ni agbára di ìṣòro.


But energy burdens are so much more than just a number.


Ṣùgbọ́n àwọn ìṣòro agbára pọ̀ gan-an ju iye kan lọ.


They present impossible and perilous choices: Do you take your child to get her flu medicine, or do you feed her?


Wọ́n máa ń ṣe àgbékalẹ̀ àwọn ẹ̀yàn tí ò ṣe é ṣe tó jẹ́ abéwudé: Ṣé wàá mú ọmọọ̀ rẹ lọ gba òògùn àrùn-ọlọ́jẹ̀-ọ̀nà-èémí rẹ̀, àbí kí o bọ́ ọ?


Or do you keep her warm?


Àbí ṣé kí o jẹ́ kí ara rẹ̀ máa lọ́?


It's an impossible choice, and nearly every month, seven million people choose between medicine and energy.


Ẹ̀yàn tí ò ṣe é ṣe ni, ó sì fẹ́rẹ̀ẹ́ jẹ́ pé lóṣooṣù, àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ méje ènìyàn máa ń yàn láàárín òògùn àti agbára.


This exposes a much larger and systemic issue.


"Èyí ń tú àṣìírí ọ̀rọ̀ t""ó tóbi tó sì gba ètò."


Families with high energy burdens are disproportionately people of color, who spend more per square foot than their white counterparts.


Àwọn ẹbí tí wọ́n ní ìṣòro agbára tó ga ni àwọn ènìyàn aláwọ̀ dúdú, tí wọ́n máa ń náwó ju ìwọn ẹsẹ̀ kan yàtọ̀ sí àwọn akẹgbẹ́ wọn tí wọ́n jẹ́ aláwọ̀ funfun.


But it's also nurses, veterans and even schoolteachers who fall into the mass of 37 million people a year who are unable to afford energy for their most basic needs.


Ṣùgbọ́n àwọn olùtọ́-ilé-ìwòsàn, àwọn àgbà-ọ̀jẹ̀ àti àwọn olùkọ́ nílé-ẹ̀kọ́ wà nínú àwọn àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ mẹ́tà-dín-lógójì ènìyàn lọ́dún tí wọn ò níkàpá agbára fún àwọn ohun èlo kòṣe é má nìí jùlọ wọn.


As a result, those with high energy burdens have a greater likelihood of conditions like heart disease and asthma.


Nítorí èyí, àwọn tí wọ́n ní ìṣòra agbára tó ga ṣe é ṣe kí wọ́n ní àwọn àrùn bi àrùn ọkàn àti àrun séèémí-séèémí.


Look -- given our rockets to Mars and our pocket-sized AI, we have the tools to address these systemic inequities.


Ẹ wòó - pẹ̀lú bàlú ayáraféfé wa tó lọ sí máásì àti AI tí ò ju àpò lọ, a ní àwọn irinṣẹ́ láti yanjú àwọn kùdiẹ̀-kudiẹ ètò wọ̀nyí.


The technology is here.


Ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ náà wà débi.


Cost of renewables, insulation, microgrids and smart home technology are all decreasing.


Iye owó ìsọdọ̀tun, bíbo oru, àkójọpọ̀ agbára àti imọ̀-ẹ̀rọ agbára inú-ilé gbogbo ti ń dínkù.


However, even as we approach cost parity, the majority of those who own solar earn much more than the average American.


Síbẹ̀, pẹ̀lu bí a ṣe ń súmọ́ ìdọ́gba iye owó, ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ àwọn ti wọ́n ní agbára ìtọ̀sán-oòrùn ń pawó ju ọ̀pọ ọmọ ilẹ̀ America lọ.


This is why, when I was 22, I founded the nonprofit RETI.


Ìdí nìyí, nígbà tí mo wà lọ́mọdún méjì-lé-lógún, mo dá ilé-iṣẹ́ àìjère RETI sílẹ̀.


Our mission is to alleviate energy burdens by working with communities, utilities and government agencies alike to provide equitable access to clean energy, energy efficiency and energy technology.


Afojúsùn wa ni láti sọ ìṣòro agbára di fúfúyẹ́ nípa ìṣiṣẹ́ pẹ̀lú àwọn àwùjọ, àwọn ilé-iṣẹ́ tó ń pèse agbára àti àwọn aṣojú ìjọba bákan náà láti pèse àǹfààní adọ́gba sí agbára aláìléwu, àdínkù agbára àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ agbára.


But there's no one way to solve this.


Ṣùgbọ́n kò sí ọ̀nà kan ṣoṣo láti yanjú èyí.


I believe in the power of local communities, in the transforming effect of relationships.


Mo nígbàgbọ́ nínú agbára ní àwọn àwùjọ agbègbè, nínú àyípadà ipa àjọṣepọ̀.


So we start by working directly with the communities that have the highest energy burdens.


A bẹ̀rẹ̀ pẹ̀lu ṣíṣe iṣẹ́ tààrà pẹ̀lú àwọn àwùjọ tí wọ́n ní ìṣòro agbára tó gajù.


We host workshops and events for communities to learn about energy poverty, and how making even small updates to their homes like better insulation for windows and water heaters can go a long way to maximize efficiency.


A ṣe ìpàdé àkànṣe-iṣẹ́ àti àwọn ètò fún àwọn àwùjọ láti kọ́ nípa òṣi agbára, àti bí ṣíṣe ìsọdọ̀tun kékeré sí ilé-wọn bíi bíbo-oru fún ojú fèrèsé àti amómi-gbóná ṣe lè ṣe púpọ̀ láti ṣàmúlo àdínkù agbára.


We're connecting neighborhoods to community solar and spearheading community-led smart home research and installation programs to help families bring down their energy bills.


À ń so àwọn agbègbè mọ́ agbára ìtọ̀sán-òrùn àwùjọ a sì ń léwájú ìwádìí ìgbésẹ̀-àwùjọ lórí ilé aládàṣe àti àwọn èto ṣíṣe àtò láti lè bá àwọn ẹbí mú owó agbára wálè.


We're even working directly with elected officials, advocating for more equitable pricing, because to see this vision of energy equity and resilience succeed, we have to work together sustainably.


A tún ṣiṣẹ́ tààrà pẹ̀lú àwọn aṣojú tí wọ́n fíbò yàn, tí à ń jà fún owo adọ́gba, nítori láti jẹ́ kí ìran agbára adọ́gba àti aláìléwu kẹ́sẹjárí, a ní láti ṣiṣẹ́ papọ̀ pẹ̀lú ìfọwọ́sowọ́pọ̀.


Now, the US spends over three billion a year on energy bill payment assistance.


Ní báyìí, orílẹ̀-ède US ń ná ju bílíọ́nù mẹ́ta lọ́dún lórí ìrànlọ́wọ́ sísan owó agbára.


And these programs do help millions of people, but they're only able to help a fraction of those in need.


Àwọn ètò wọ̀nyí máa ń ran àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ ènìyàn lọ́wọ́, ṣùgbọ́n apá kan nínú àwọn aláìní ni wọ́n lè pèsè ìrànlọ́wọ́ fún.


In fact, there is a 47-billion-dollar home-energy affordability gap, so assistance alone is not sustainable.


Lóòótọ́, bílíọ́nù mẹ́tà-dín-láàdọ́ta àlàfo ìníkápá agbára-ilé ló wà, nítorí náà ìrànlọ́wọ́ nìkan ò tó.


But by building energy equity and resilience into our communities, we can assure fair and impartial access to energy that is clean, reliable and affordable.


Ṣùgbọ́n pẹ̀lu ìṣẹ̀da agbára adọ́gba àti aláìléwu nínú àwùjọ wa, a lè ṣe ìdánilójú àǹfààní adọ́gba àti aláìṣègbè sí agbára tí ò léwu, tó ṣe é gbáralé tó sì rọjú.


At scale, microgrid technology, clean technology and energy efficiency dramatically improve public health.


Lórí ìwọ̀n, ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ àkójọpọ̀ agbára, ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ aláìléwu àti àdínkù agbára máa ń mú ìdàgbàsókè bá ìlera gbogbogbò bí eré.


And for those with high energy burdens, it can help them reclaim 20 percent of their income -- 20 percent of a person's income who's struggling to make ends meet.


Fún àwọn tí wọ́n ní ìṣòro agbára tó ga, ó lè bá wọn gbá ìda ogún owó tí wọ́n ń gbà padà -- ìda ogún owó tí ènìyàn ń gbà tó ń tiraka láti wá oúnjẹ òjọ́.


This is life-changing.


Èyí ń yí ìgbésíayé padà.


This is an opportunity for families to use their energy savings to sponsor their future.


Àǹfààní rèé fún àwọn ẹbí láti lo àdínkù owó-agbára láti ṣe ìgbọ̀wọ́ ọjọ́-iwájú wọn.


I think back to my great-grandmother and her neighbors, the impossible choices that they had to make and the effect it had on our whole community.


Mo máa ń ronú padà sí ìyá àgbà ìyá mi àti àwọn alájọgbé wọn, àwọn àǹfààní yíyàn tí ò ṣe é ṣe tí wọ́n ní láti ṣe àti ipa tó ní lórí gbogbo àwùjọ.


But this is not just about them.


Ṣùgbọ́n èyí kìí ṣe nípa wọn nìkan.


There are millions nationwide having to make the same impossible choices today.


Àádọ́ta-ọ̀kẹ́ lágbàyé ni wọ́n ń ṣe irú àǹfààní yíyàn tí ò ṣe é ṣe yìí kan náà lónì.


And I know high energy burdens are a tremendous barrier to overcome, but through relationships with communities and technology, we have the paths to overcome them.


Mo mọ̀ pé ìṣòro agbára ńlá jẹ́ wàhálà kan tó pọ̀ láti borí, ṣùgbọ́n nípasẹ̀ àjọṣepọ̀ pẹ̀lú àwọn àwùjọ àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ, a ní àwọn ọ̀nà láti borí wọn.


And when we do, we will all be more resilient.


Nígbà tí a bá sì ṣe bẹ́ẹ̀, gbogbo wa ni ara wá máa túbọ̀ le sí i


Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air?


Ǹjẹ́ a lè dá àyípadà ojú ọjọ́ dúró pẹ̀lu yíyọ CO2 kúrò nínú afẹ́fẹ́?


To avoid dangerous climate change, we're going to need to cut emissions rapidly.


Láti dènà àyípadà ojú ọjọ́ tó léwu, a máa nílò láti gé ìtúsílẹ̀ kù kíákíá.


That should be a pretty uncontentious statement, certainly with this audience.


Ìyẹ́n gbọ́dọ̀ jẹ́ ọ̀rọ̀ tí ò mú awuyewuye dání, ní ìdánilójú pẹ̀lú àwọn olùgbọ́ yìí.


But here's something that's slightly more contentious: it's not going to be enough.


Ṣùgbọ́n nǹkankan rèé tó lè fa awuyewuye díẹ̀ lọ́wọ́: kò ní tó.


We will munch our way through our remaining carbon budget for one and a half degrees in a few short years, and the two degree budget in about two decades.


A máa rápálá wáyè kọjá ìṣúná èédú tókù fún àléfà kan àtàbọ̀ ní ọdún tó kéré díẹ̀, àti ìṣúná àléfà méjì ní bíi èwá-ọdún méjì.


We need to not only cut emissions extremely rapidly, we also need to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.


A ò nílò láti gé ìtúsílẹ̀ kù kíákíá nìkan, a tún nílò láti mú òyì-èédú kúrò ní òyì ojú-ayé.


I work assessing a whole range of these proposed techniques to see if they can work.


Mo ṣiṣẹ́ pẹ̀lu ṣíṣe àyẹ̀wo ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ àwọn ìlànà tí wọ́n dálábàá wọ̀nyí láti wò ó bóyá wọ́n lè ṣiṣẹ́.


We could use plants to take CO2 out, and then store it in trees, in the soil, deep underground or in the oceans.


A lè lo àwọn nǹkan ọ̀gbìn láti mú CO2 kúrò, ká sì tọ́jú wọn sínú igi, inú iyẹ̀pẹ̀, lábẹ́ ilẹ̀ tàbí inú omi-òkun.


We could build large machines, so-called artificial trees, that will scrub CO2 from the air.


A lè ṣẹ̀dá àwọn ẹ̀rọ ǹlá-ńlá, àwọn tí wọ́n ń pè ní igi àtọwọ́dá, tí yóò nu CO2 kúrò nínú afẹ́fẹ́.


For these ideas to be feasible, we need to understand whether they can be applied at a vast scale in a way that is safe, economic and socially acceptable.


Kí àwọn èrò wọ̀nyí lè ṣe é ṣe, a nílò láti mọ̀ bóyá a lè ṣàmúlò wọ́n lórí ìwọ̀n ńlá lọ́nà tí ò fi ní séwu, tí yóò sì jẹ́ gbígbà fún ọrọ̀-ajé àti àwùjọ.


All of these ideas come with tradeoffs.


Gbogbo èrò wọ̀nyí ló wá pẹ̀lú kùdìẹ̀kudiẹ.


None of them are perfect, but many have potential.


Kò sí ìkankan nínú wọn tó pé tán, ṣùgbọ́n ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ nínú wọn ló ṣe é ṣe.


It's unlikely that any one of them will solve it on its own.


Kò dájú pé ìkakan nínú wọn lè yanjú rẹ̀ lóun nìkan.


There is no silver bullet, but potentially together, they may form the silver buckshot that we need to stop climate change in its tracks.


Kò sí idán Kankan, ṣùgbọ́n bóyá lápapọ̀, wọ́n lè pidán tí a nílò láti dá àyípadà ojú-ọjọ́ dúró ní orípa rẹ̀.