This paper draws heavily on my own experience of teaching Yorùbá language and culture for over a decade at SOAS, University of London. The paper will examine the history of the contact of Yorùbá language and culture with the United Kingdom and how interest was established and sustained over time. The renaissance of interest in Yorùbá language and culture in recent times, not only in the United kingdom but in other parts of Europe, especially France, Germany and the Netherlands, are examined. Students are not coming only from North America, South America and the Caribbean Islands, Yorùbá is beginning to attract the attention of Japanese and Burmese students at SOAS, for example. The paper will explore the reasons for this renaissance and suggest the way forward if the interest are to be sustained on a long term basis for the future. The paper will also examine the resurgence of interest in Yorùbá language and cultural studies for children and young adults born to Yorùbá parents, batling with identity crisis. The ways to address this problem within Yorùbá communities are outlined. Other areas of need include making provisions for non-Yorùbá (men and women), who are married or about to be married to Yorùbá (men and women), professional individuals raised in the Diaspora but who want to take their professionalism to Yorùbá land / Nigeria, especially in the areas of politics and business. Finally, the negative effects of publicity about African indigenous ritual practices will be examined. An example of such negative publicity is the ritual murder of the child code named "Adam", whose torso was found in the River Thames in 2001. This ritual murder was widely speculated to be associated either with South African "Muti" killing or Yorùbá indigenous religious ritual.