A web-based English to Yoruba noun-phrases machine translation system

The paper argues that Baya’s play, Tomorrow’s People, advocates the transformation and localisation of the African theatrical industries as a part of the educational system that aims at liberating the mind and promoting an Afro-centric worldview within a global framework. It explored the dramatisation of the school system and showed that the reclamation of the African academy requires the enactment of an indigenous curriculum that allowed pupils to relate to the wider global world. Through textual analysis of the play, it was noted that the playwright rejected the anti-creative culture of imitating established Eurocentric artistic traditions and championed the training of independent and innovative thinkers who can improvise, theorise, confidently articulate issues from an Afro-centric perspective and contribute to the enrichment of a multicultural global village where Africans participated as peers. The play was rooted within Zimbabwean histories, realities and sensibilities; whilst proffering solutions to real life developmental and existential problems that enabled Africa to participate in shaping global cultural and intellectual discourses.  Key words: Glocalization, globalisation, creativity, indigenisation, reclamation, African-centeredness, academy, knowledge, discourse.