"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much." - Walter Lippmann
Student Association
Linguistics Students’ Association (LINSA)
An association of students of linguistics at Ibadan was founded in April 1980 under the name Linguistics Students’ Association (LINSA). Mr Akintola Olu-Arikawe and Mr S. O. Oyetade were its founding President and Secretary respectively.
The Association is comprised of a lawmaking congress, a press that manages information and an executive leadership. All bona fide undergraduate and masters’ students of Linguistics constitute the LINSA Congress.
LINSA is founded on the following objectives:
- To provide an effective students’ governing body at the level of the department.
- To promote good interaction among students, and between students and staff (and university authorities).
- To protect the interest of members.
- To create a forum for social, cultural, intellectual and moral integration.
- To develop humane spirit among members by learning to work with people irrespective of their nationality, sex, religion or political convictions.
Every year we organize talks, workshops and seminars to keep students abreast with the possibilities that linguistics presents. Our focus in the last couple of years has been on how linguistics fits into the fast changing world of Information Technology. We also organize a dinner and awards night at the end of every academic year.
Since 1980, we have grown from
strength to strength because we know that, “no matter the number of organs of speech,
they work together to produce
one sound at a time”.
Yoruba Students’ Association of Nigeria (YOSAN)
Yoruba Students’ Association of Nigeria, University of Ibadan branch was founded in 1969 with the aim of reawakening the love for Yoruba language and culture among members of the university community. YOSAN seeks to achieve its objectives by organizing activities such as: Cultural Days, Public Lectures, Beauty Peagents, Excursions, Dinner and Award Nights. The Association has a press that publishes solely in Yoruba Language and also a drama group that performs sketches in Yoruba to entertain at social functions.
