WHEN YOU HEAR THE ROLLING DRUMS
BÍ Ẹ BÁ Ń'GBỌ́ PE'KÉLÉ PE'KÉLÉ – A Yoruba Cultural Song Bi e ba n’gbo pe'kele pe'kele, Bi e ba n’gbo pe'kele pe'kele; E ma ya s’otun, e ma ya s’osi, Ile ol’oro l’oro n’gba…
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THE EXPERIENCES LIFE IMPARTS US
– ÌRÍRÍ AYÉ “Don’t be shocked that your pals and kinfolks are present where you are being disparaged. The aftershocks generated by the disclosure that they initiated the disparagement could kill you. It stings when…
I HAIL THE IJESHAS
MO KÍ GBOGBO ÌJÈSHÀ (YORUBA) – Chief Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi, known as Ebenezer Obey, sang this song decades ago, to commemorate the Ijeshas, a subgroup in Yorubaland. Mo ki gbogbo Ijesha, Omo ol’obi…
UNSHACKLE YOUR MINDS
– Emancipate "Unlike versatile education, ignorance fixates people's minds on the old and only ways they knew how to do things. They explain things the same ways the people before them did. Their minds are…
UNLIMITED HORIZONS
– Stop Limiting your Prospects “One of the vilest disservices one could do to self is to don the garb of ethnicity, when standing on a global stage. If the immortal is benevolent enough to…
WE STROVE AND SURPASSED THEM
A ṢE’ṢE, A JÙ'WỌ́N LỌ NÁ – A Yoruba Cultural Song A’se’se, a ju’won lo na ooo, A’se’se, a ju’won lo na; A’se’se, a ju’won lo na ooo, A’se’se, a ju’won lo na. Igba irore…
THE WELL BRED ENTITY
ỌMỌ OLÚ'LÉ ỌLỌ́NÀ – A Refrain for the Bride (This classical Ekiti folksong counsels brides to ponder their backgrounds before engaging in domestic disputes. Ekiti is a subgroup within the Yoruba ethnic group in West…
THE UNQUESTIONABLE ONE
KÁBÍYÈSÍ – Reflection on humans and our diminutiveness “Everything, they say, has beginning and ending. Following the same rational, they enunciate that everything that exists was created or caused by something. Those concepts, I believe,…
MEMO TO THE YOUTH – 1
– Choices “Friends would come up with many IDEAS, but YOU are ultimately RESPONSIBLE for the ones you CHOOSE.IMAGE: All-smiles – but the friendly person often leaves a gap for an unforeseen disagreement.” – Dele…