christejames:
Leave our Ibadan beauty for us, don't you know that the rusty roof induce ancestral inspiration for us?

Them.say na scattered china in the sun

Do not be deceived! There is nothing like 'brown roof is our Yoruba heritage' I mean, zinc roof is not an indigenous technology, so how come it became Yoruba heritage?

If you had talked about raffia palm roof, palm frond roof as Yoruba heritage, I would have wholely agreed with you but rusted zinc roof is not and can never be a Yoruba heritage instead it shows years of abject penury, neglect and total government failure.

Peace!

WaleBuraimoh:

There's dignity in poverty

Just take note

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This writer is Yoruba and he lived in Ibadan for a long time based on what he wrote. Isn't it a shame he never actually visited any of the brown roof-dominated areas? (I'm judging from what he wrote).

It would have given him a bigger picture of what's going on there. The brown roof menace in Ibadan is much more complicated than what the OP wrote and it might be surprising that some people have made their houses more comfortable in those areas than what you have inside some posh communities.

In the brown roof areas, you will find estates built in the 70s and 80s where people live the average hustler's life. Yet, you will find others who live as if they moved their villages to the centre of Ibadan (nothing to remind you we're in the 21st century). And then, some houses only exist because they connect extended family members who are now scattered all over the world. You will find a lot of unnoccuppied (and not necessarily dilapidated) houses. About 1/4 of dwellers in those communities have houses in new sites (not necessarily luxurious buildings) even though there are young people who I can say that the society failed them.

Of course, it's not pleasant at all (I blame the government and the local government system which is practically dead). But yet, it isn't as gloomy as your post suggested. I only wish a governor in Oyo State would one day take an interest in re-planning those communities and opening them up.

Rusty Dirty Heritage

What is beautiful about this ugliness and filth?

Isn't that oje

This only depicts the typical life of most Yorubas; abandon your hometown or country home for a bigger city like Lagos, London, New York, Abuja, etc once you succeed financially.


Yorubas don't have a culture of going back to their roots to develop it and touch the lives of people in their remote villages and hometowns where they started from.


Take a look at Bola Tinubu for instance, he abandoned his hometown in Iragbiji Osun state and adopted Ikoyi Lagos as his hometown and mumuishly calling himself "city boy" and his people keep clapping for him. What stops Tinubu from going back to Iragbiji to touch lives and turn that forgotten village to a place of glory so that the land will be happy it produced a great person?


MKO Abiola did the same thing.

Prof Yemi Osinbajo also did same; he abandoned his hometown in Ikenne Ogun state to adopt Ikoyi Lagos as his hometown, not until his political fight with Bola Tinubu entered the gbege stage that Osinbajo then remembered he had a remote hometown to run back to.


If you check all the rich and famous Yoruba people and check the village or hometown they came from, you will cry. They always abandon those areas citing village witches and bad belle people, why only Yorubas?


Imagine a great man like MKO Abiola died and was buried in Lagos state and not his hometown in Ogun state? That can only happen to Yorubas, no other tribe in Nigeria.


This is another reason Fulani land grabbers are having an upper hand in Southwest as Yoruba sons and daughters abandon their remote villages and hometowns to claim Lagosians, Londoners and Americanas, it is well with the Yorubas


Dear Yorubas please change that style, it doesn't pay in Africa we come from if not your heritage will be completely wiped with time.


Even Americans still respect their hometowns and always go back to their hometowns at old age. Check Ex President Bush, Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama, and many others, they always abandon the bubbling cities to return back to their countryhomes.



A typical Yoruba boy will never make money and remember to go back to his old father's house in the remote area to renovate it and make it modern, he will automatically reject his local village and claim Lagosian with pride, odiegwu oh