Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Poetic Thoughts

My People;

Much as I have little time for native taboos, the only ones that I violate are those that prevent me from worshipping God and serving mankind.  

Violating taboos capriciously - simply for the heck of it, and/or for selfish purpose, say  - sets you on a constant path of uncertain living,  constantly wondering whether the little or big life's misfortunes that are bound to episodically befall us are a result of those taboo violations.  One who dies even twenty years later after cavorting with the ex-Olori, it may be claimed that he would have died twenty-five years later otherwise! Who the heck knows?

Remember that sin is violating God's taboos.  There must also be consequences for violating Man's taboos.

And there you have it.

Bolaji Aluko

On Thursday, September 7, 2017, Ibukunolu A Babajide <ibk2005@gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting proverb coined long before the invention of the railway that demanded hard wood to lay tracks from London to the remotest villages of Scotland.  That gave rise to the chainsaw that saw the Iroko fall while it tarried in contemplation of its retaliation!

Cheers.

IBK

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On 7 September 2017 at 00:00, 'Adeshina Afolayan' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hmmm

SMH...

Let the mischievous child

stick out his grubby tongue,

but it is not the day he

abuses the Iroko tree that

he should expect retaliation.

you can roll and frolic, and 

live to be many years;

the Iroko never forgets

SMH

There is no rest for the wicked...

  

 

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan

+23480-3928-8429

On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 5:25 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

She preferred my lullabies

To the incantations of kabiyesi.

My lullabies

Were antidotes

To her sleeplessness.

I penned poems

On Olori's loin,

Yet,

I did not die.

(c) Chidi Anthony Opara

#2017Poeticthoughts

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