Christianah (Tana) Ajiki
Position title: Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant ⎻ Yoruba
Email: ajiki@wisc.edu
Address:
3rd floor, Bradley Memorial Building
Education
- MA Linguistics (Yoruba) – University of Lagos, Nigeria
- BA Linguistics (Yoruba) – University of Lagos, Nigeria
Bio
Tana Ajiki is a Yoruba linguist with diverse skills and several years of experience in language teaching, content development, academic and ghostwriting, editing, translating, and voice-over narration across educational, tech, and finance industries.
Tana’s multifaceted Master’s degree research was titled “Topics in Yoruba Numerals”. The dissertation explored the grammar interfaces embedded in Yoruba numerals, their application and their significance in various domains such as cultural practices, including child-naming tradition, proverbs and taboo systems, Yoruba spirituality (numerology as a focus), and economic activities. She intends to advance her research on Yoruba numerals to explore its science and how it can be introduced into technology software and integrated into pedagogical systems.
Tana expresses her creative and artsy talent by producing custom Yoruba-based designs on apparel and stationery items. She is interested in sociolinguistics, language and intercultural communication, language policy and planning, and language pedagogy.
Publication
Tana is the author of a Yoruba numeracy book titled “Onka Yoruba: Counting from 1 to 1,000,000,000” and a forthcoming nonfiction book tentatively titled “Talk Thirty to Me—Un-Christian-Ah!”