Wole Soyinka writes poetry, plays and novels in his native Yoruba and in English.

渥雷·索因卡不仅写诗，还写剧本和小说，这些作品都是用约鲁巴语和英语写的。

I think my native language, Yoruba, is part of my identity.

我认为我的母语约鲁巴语是我身份的一部分。

We all have Yoruba in the southwestern part of Nigeria, which is my native language.

尼日利亚西南部地区说约鲁巴语，这也是我的母语。

It's called dodo. In my region of Nigeria, I'm Yoruba we call it dodo but it's basically fried plantains.

那就是dodo。在我生活的那个地区，我是约鲁巴族人，我们称这道菜为dodo，其实就是油炸大蕉。

Wow! Can you talk a little bit about each language? Now, you said your language is Yoruba?

哇哦！你每种语言都会吗？你的母语是约鲁巴语？

For the Yoruba, agitation isn't merely an offence to a proper understanding of the universe; it's also just horribly unfashionable.

对约鲁巴人来说，激动既不能帮助我们正确地理解宇宙，这件事情也非常不时髦。

And Yoruba culture has inspired my art since I was a child.

约鲁巴文化从我小时候就启发了我的艺术。

Now, Baratunde is based on a Yoruba name from Nigeria, but we're not Nigerian.

现在，Baratunde 是基于来自尼日利亚的约鲁巴语名字，但我们不是尼日利亚人。

Mama -- that's what I call my grandmother -- told me many stories about Yoruba mythology.

妈妈— — 我就是这样称呼我的祖母的— —给我讲了很多关于约鲁巴神话的故事。

My Yoruba heritage is always there.

我的约鲁巴传统一直存在。

For the Yoruba, agitation and anger flow from a mistaken and over-ambitious sense of what it lies in our power to alter.

对约鲁巴人来说，激动和愤怒源于对我们改变的力量的错误和过于雄心勃勃的感觉。

You see, Ori in Yoruba mythology means your soul, it means your essence, it means your instincts.

你看，Ori 在约鲁巴神话中意味着你的灵魂，它意味着你的本质， 它意味着你的本能。

Afrobeat, popularised by the likes of Nigeria's Fela Kuti, melds jazz, funk, and traditional Yoruba music into a compelling cocktail.

非洲节奏音乐 (Afrobeat) 因尼日利亚歌手费拉·库蒂 (Fela Kuti) 等人的喜爱而广受欢迎，它将爵士乐、放克音乐和传统约鲁巴音乐融合成一杯引人注目的鸡尾酒。

For example in my region, I speak Yoruba, so Yoruba, they use a lot of Yoruba.

我家乡说约鲁巴语，所以歌词里会使用很多约鲁巴语。

In just over a year, we've translated hundreds of thousands of words of climate information into over 100 languages, including Yoruba, Somali, Swahili and Gujarati.

在仅仅一年多的时间里，我们已经把数十万字的气候信息翻译成了 100 多种语言，其中包括约鲁巴语、索马里语、斯瓦希里语和古吉拉特语。

Which ones? I think English is my best language but I also speak Yoruba, a Nigerian language, and I speak French as well. Yes. And you?

哪三种？我最擅长的语言是英语，我还会约鲁巴语，这是尼日利亚的一种语言，我也会法语。你呢？

So people who are spiritual, depending on what their practices are or their beliefs are - so, for example, I'm a Yoruba-Lukumi priest and a priest of Ogun.

因此，有灵性的人，取决于他们的实践或信仰——所以，例如，我是约鲁巴-卢库米 (Yoruba-Lukumi) 的牧师和奥贡 (Ogun) 的牧师。

Slapping thighs, shuffling feet and patting hands: this was how they got around the slave owners' ban on drumming, improvising complex rhythms just like ancestors did with drums in Haiti or in the Yoruba communities of West Africa.

看起来可能是这个样子，拍大腿来回动脚：还有拍手，他们就这样应付禁止击鼓的奴隶主创造出复杂节奏就像祖先在海地做的击鼓。