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Nigerian-British actor, David Oyelowo, has revealed that although he spent his early days in Nigeria, he can barely speak the Yoruba language.<\/p>\n

The Selma actor said that to his shame, he only understands the Yoruba<\/a> language but cannot speak it.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Channels Television, the Gringo actor said due to his British accent, people often assume that he does not understand the language.<\/p>\n

Oyelowo, whose father hailed from Oyo State and his mother from Edo State, said, \u201cI can barely speak it but I can understand it. If you were to say anything, I will understand it; but to my shame, my Yoruba has decreased immensely. I lived in Lagos from the age of 6-13, and it has been quite a while since I have been speaking Yoruba.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great trick of mine that whenever I am around fellow Nigerians, they think that I cannot understand Yoruba and then I get to know what they really think of me when they start to speak Yoruba and I cannot understand them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further hinted that as a student of Model College Meran, Lagos, most of his peers believed that he didn\u2019t understand the Yoruba language till his last days in the school when he gave them a shocker.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cI went to Model College, Meran, Lagos, when I was living in Nigeria, and for the two years that I was at that boarding house, I pretended not to be able to speak Yoruba because I have this accent; I grew up in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that on the very last day of being at Model College, I suddenly went around speaking Yoruba the whole time. My dorm friends who thought I couldn\u2019t speak It suddenly realised that I had heard every single thing they had said about me. That was a fun moment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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