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Nigeria, a land of plenty.
May the good things of life come our ways.
In the new millennium we can make it happen.
Each and everyone of us has got a part to play.

There's so much we can do, between you and me:
Honesty, tolerance, make it your watchword.
Respecting each other, loving one another.
Staying together one people, one future.


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O God bless our native Africa. Know the remaining part? Please help!

The above is pertinent to this proverb: Ori eni la ba bo, a ba forisha sile. Igba tiku npani, nibo lorisha nwo? meaning: it is better to worship one's maker and leave the gods alone. Where were the gods when one is being killed by death? In Yoruba cosmology, death is not the end, ressurection is. So they would say 'aiku pari iwa'.This mantra means 'undoing of death is the end of existence'. Thank you Yoruba, thanks Crowther, thank you Jesus, you all get to me. I'm off to church.

This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.

Today in Yoruba is called 'ojo aiku' meaning, the day of 'undo-death' or the day of resurrection. It's now clear that 'matching' of Christian doctrine underlay some Yoruba christian or doctrinal word, and one was adopted by Crowther? to match with 'Sunday', in 'seven-day-progression' week of the Anglo/christian calendar.

the Yoruba has a loose or flexible calendar, they do take reading for an event after it occur and count three, five seven and fortnight, and then to forty one days. Ita, Orun, Ije, Itadogun, Ogoji Ojo and so on.

It never occur to Christian Yoruba that traditional Yoruba has the concept of Resurrection, so they coin the term AJINDE for the same word that has just been given as Resurrection. But there in the language is the concept of "Aiku" unattended to. Do you see the 'word and feedback' process in all this?

It's on record how the 'doctor' of the time administered bleeding on George Washington and jeopardise the old man's life thinking they were 'curing' him. But that never stopped earl Nightingale from revamping old ways of doing things. Hipocrate did not invent medicine but he was sung. Imagine if these individuals were just all about what their ancestors 'almost' or 'actually' got right! We would still be in the woods right now. Like John occam would say 'do not invent new weird theory when a simple common sense one already exist' any procedure that can not be adaptable to industry or mas production but subsistent process is D.O.A.! The glory of Africa is what the future hold, not the 'almosts' of the past.

Gracious Creator, thanks for this beautiful day. Let take a sip from the drinks reserved in the ancient cistern again. The proverb on my mind says 'arise larika, arika baba iregun' What this means is telling: 'we got to do, hence we've got to read, we've got to read begot recrimination.' meaning: it is because of the available acts that recording was devised, and from records that one read springs recrimination.

The proverb ends with 'oun aba se loni, oro itan ni l'ola (whatever we do today is material for the records tomorrow). In my days here on the planet, I've seen recrimation spring from records, but I do believe we have power over all our weaknesses.

'If we choose to live in the present', warned the ancients, 'still mindful we must be of the future!'. Today is transient, the future counts. Whatever you do or rather, wherever you go... please, drink with wisdom today, okay? It's not a command, it's an advice.

Tolexander: ops!
I don't know about the site. It depends on the device one is using to post.

That's true, I use to know of the facility on abeokuta.org, but the site is up for sale I think. Thanks so much!

Tolexander: knowing ami isn't something hard bro.

I know i'm not clear enof, but i mean to say, which site can i go to type with Yoruba letters with ami? I need it please. Thanks.

Just as I've been saying, somewhere somehow, 'book' in form of 'answer' exist for every 'question' that forms on our mind. Some of us may not have realize this. Yet we may suffer around a need that has already been met, which is around us, but which we technically ignore over 'legimate' excuses. Maybe we set ourselves up often. Answers already exist before we form our questions.

The world is such a wonderful, small atom in the cosmos, but to some, it is better that we are "cosmic family" countless light-years back, at the theoretical division in "the big bang theory" than as "human family", even when its all that folk traditions across the world have to say. Humanity transcend racism, tribalism, nationalism and so on. But however, it works whichever way you've programmed yourself to do see it.

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Vladimir Maslovsky from Ukraine south-eastern part of Central Europe calls himself “Oyinbo FlyBoi Nigerian”. He says he loves Nigeria,and can’t wait to visit Nigeria and can also speak Yoruba and Igbo a little.

see his message to Nigeria….
“You don’t have to be born in Nigeria to be a Nigerian .Yes am a white,but i’m so bleeping fully Nigerian … and i’m so proud that i met them,and they changed my life…So Thank you Lord,that is the best gift for me! So me now just waiting when i go finish my school and then i go enter Naija to make there some changes…. Yes We Can Be United! Yes We Can Be Faithful! Yes We Can Be Peaceful! Yes We Can Be Progressive! Orile ede to rewa ni nigeria Chukwu bụ onye okịke.Ọ bụ ọnye ọka ịwu. #unity and faith peace and progress! # tattoo One Love to you all my big NAIJA FAMILY! Respectfully yours ”Oyinbo FlyBoi Nigerian’”..He’s our hottie of the day.

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Proudly naija sentimental:

Nov 17. 2013

Howmanage: I get scared whenever i see these type of assertions that are not based on fact. Scared that it will end up in some western newspaper trying to make their readers laugh. Igbos are really Jews, Yorubas are really Egyptians, please you people should try na. Nigerians are already known as 419 capital, we don't need to add Laughing Stock of the World too... How embarassing that some dont have any self belief/esteem always got to try and tag themselves to other nations who won't touch you with a stick

So good you list everything you are not proud of here. What are you proud of as a Nigerian? There are whites that earnestly wish they were blacks from Nigeria. Don't let stupid fear of what white people will say kill your discovery... https://www.nairaland.com/1362494/yoruba-origin-history-canaanland-connection/14

Now this is where it gets "voodooical". Everybody is interested here.

Ori is Yoruba equivalent for God, as used in the proverb, ori lonishe... Note that they did not say "Ori-nu", (translated roughly as luck or individual aura) which is different from "Ori" that is Head. Whenever we see Ori- and -Eda together, we know its duality of man and his creator. To the Yoruba, this goes together: Ori mi ye o jah! Ja funmi, eda mi ye o jah! Ja funmi.

Oni kaluku lo leleda tie

Everyone has his or her own Creator? Not particularly. Olorun-Eleda is an established phrase in Yoruba lexicon. People says, Tobaw'oluwa, Tobaw'Ori, Tobaw'Eleda mi. Eda is Yoruba homonym for replica or copy of the original. We are all replica of the creator, that make us his creation or each of us is a copy of the maker. When the Yoruba says Onikaluku lo leleda tie, (everyman with his own god?) they were saying everyone represent his maker, or everyone is a replica of the maker.

Its simple but not really simple once personal agenda is heavily enmeshed. But the truth should not always elude us forever, the value of the truth is to be found when needed, not when it's need is stale.

Ok for now. Again my name is Ladi, this is what I do, "word processing". It is a sweet science.

The significance of the above mantra is this: Ori lonishe, Eda la yan mor. it means "to the head belong deeds, but to the creation is what pertains with each of them". Put more aptly, "Man propose, God disposes". Honestly, I often wonder if some folks before us were responsible for creating proverbs that look alike in different cultures through comparative studies. But some proverbs are unique and how it connect to other culture is of a different angle.

The main idea is, ori-lonishe, eda-layonmoh is the best alternative to man propose, God dispose. But "through comparative studies" that I just talked about is real, from it we got "riro ni t'eniyan, sise ni tolorun". In light of this, some folks had actually interpreted "man propose, God dispose" as "riro ni teniyan, sise ni tolorun" at a point in time. That means when we came in contact with western ideas we created a variant of their thought that impress us.

But beneath that, there is similar thought of the same value tucked somewhere in our own language, I don't know if I'm communicating. How that came to match I don't know, (though I used to know in the old world, where I am coming from. But I got to be free here lest I bring my flame everywhere I go!)

Another beautiful day from The Spring of Life. Glory be to God in the Highest, Amen. Here comes one of the most beautiful Yoruba proverb that I know: 'Ori lonise, eda layonmor'. Yes I know its musical, remember? So do I. So what does the mantra have for us?

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^^CUT, CUT, CUT. THIS IS SERIOUS, MY MOVIE STAR IS DELERIOUS!

zeemoore: #clueless#
ABOKI NAH, STOP DERAILING UR THREAD

THAT'S WHAT I'M BEST AT Meanwhile, I'm neither clueless nor ABOKI. I AM LADI FOREVER.

By the way, novel information dissemination as being witness with the internet is akin to what happened in the city of mainz when the movable type was invented in the AD. 1400s. Bible was the first book to published by Gutemberg the inventor. Since this time book replace scrolls as medium for records. By any means, surfing the internet will not replace reading a traditional book any sooner.(?)

Yemlizzy: Eyah....what an experience!

I believe its not an ordinary eyes, maybe, but who knows, its how it happen sha. Such is life.

zeemoore: Ni yoruba?

Wobi Omo to shan kilo nshele? lati idaji ni mo tin jekiri, pelu oko alafe mi tuntun lori omi. Tawole jareh, Orekelewa, jeka malor jor, mo fe lo fa siga kuba mi l'abete.

zeemoore: Biko, go easy with ur "big english"
I av a small brain nd itz really hard for me to comprehend this ur english
I knw itz hard for u bhu plz try nd use simple english for the benefit of dullards like moa
U aint debating with Uncle Patrick

Never mind, baby, my brain has cool down now. I just mistakenly forgot to change my brain's default setting back to 'Nigeria' properly after few scenes of a 'grammatico' wrestlemania on t.v. Thanks for the obsa...(DONE, your English is in 9ja mode now, do you like one month subscription-free trial? eh, wia is 'Thanks, who no like beta tin' na?)...salvation. Zee baby, i'm back in the neighbourood, settings updated succesifully!

I mean, avoid the hollow of something is an instruction on Chastity in a cryptic way. All they want to say is 'don't go get curious about the channel of creation from this!' In fact, it is sex education without the censored word. We are a bunch of failure if we can not read our culture like book. Peace.

Yemlizzy: This makes me remember those days in secondary reading about the tales of Ijapa and his wife Yannibo.....its quite a funny one

Back in those day, mum brough home ijapa, that she found at site. It automatically became mine. A plaything is born and all the supertition was life again. 'Please, do not put your hand to the hollow!' my older peer said 'That's what i want to do!' 'Ah, it would never release your finger!' Are you serious, ever? 'No, except if it thunder'. When will it thunder? When it rain. I was not happy. But I let go. Meanwhile when we want to go to bed I cover the unfortunate creature with heavy mortal so it would not trick us and go. Sadly, she died before dawn. My silly friends saw my countenance and felt sorry. Yet one boy said it was another tortoise trick, and that if we throw the tortoise out, it would run for dear life! That's a ray of hope. We are close by and an elder came lashing at us. However, I think the saying 'avoid the hollow' is talking of...

Tolexander: Base on culture,

am currently reading ìwé ìtàn ìjàpá àti ìyàwóo rè, iyáníbo àti ògbójú ode nínú igbó irúnmolè!

I have read G.O. Fagunwa over and over. I bought it at spectrom books, via eleganza plaza, alausa, Ikeja. Please teach me where to get ami on my Yoruba.

zeemoore: Aini amojukuro lonje keru were po
I have to show this to someone
Thanks Ladi

Hey my zee baby, I've set forth at dawn cruising on my new yatch. Hop in, baby, we gotta go, I gwanna puff ma cuban cigar in tha hood!

This is what books are capable of: 'In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.' ALBERT SCHWEITZER.

Just as the saying goes, 'we live in a global village' at the turn of the century, thought from diverse clime is fast changing the way we run our affairs now, for instance, as the web unite us, it adds to our information database in a way. So its like its over with the old way of socialising and learning the classroom way.

I am talking of books that help us find beauty in chaos, not particularly academics or curricular books. These are like 'borrowed sight' we need to see the world with. It will definitely help in adapting us to our environment, the world.

I know very well that we all have good genius points that may not make it to press for whatever reason. But that should not make us say 'no' to books. Of course some pastimes are more convenient, but book is a writers attempt to unravel an open secret, the title. Book title to me, is like someone is attempting a question and needs me to verify something. Then I trick myself to buy and see. At least I know my average. I may have read up to 6 books round the year, A2Z. I get time... while shuttling here and there. I hope you must have done something better or similar, though. But...What book are you reading now?

Good morning, Ladies and Gents. And my fellow nlanders. I am into books because I love reading and I want to see some word up north. And as well help others with theirs. That aside, book is our best silent companion.