Yoruba Ye Mi: A Beginning Yoruba Textbook was designed, written and developed by Fehintola Mosadomi, a professor in Middle Eastern Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As a linguist, Mosadomi's interests include poetry, language pedagogy, language and power, language and gender, feminist studies, African linguistics, semantics, and Francophone studies. She is also an accomplished poet.