₦airaland Forum

Kukutente23:
Are you saying the song is not an original composition from Mike but was actually part of the original story?
You seem to have changed the story. Don't forget it's a competition among suitors. There's another one where the elephant was deceived by the tortoise that he was about to be made king in order to capture him for the village. That's the one I think you've mixed up with this one.

He composed a song from the story picking up chants word enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu from the story, in this story the kings daughter who has rejected so many suitors told her father that anyone who wants to marry her must bring an elephant, the tortoise on the other hand went and lied to the elephant that the King choose him (elephant) to be the chairman of the next ofala festival

Kukutente23:
Is this not the song composed by Mike

From the very start I told you gentleman mike sample it from the story , ( enhi na aga ayi so gi na Azu) I don't really consider it a song but some sort of a chant of deceitful encouragement from not just the tortoise but those they met on their way to the kings palace, encouraging the elephant to walk to his doom

Enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu, (elephant continue to move we are all behind you) gwo gwo gwo ngwo added to it is just a sound of how the elephant walked

Kukutente23:
It's very obvious
The igbo version has no accompanying song which makes it incomplete

Enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu , is the song that accompies the story, the song comes up the moment the tortoise climbs to ride the elephant to the kings palace , so what song are you talking about again?

Kukutente23:
That's not possible

It's also not possible that our grandparents heard it from the yoruba's

Kukutente23:
Your grandparents must have heard it from the Yorubas

What if the yoruba's heard it from the igbos?

MosakuAW:
Very stup!d and lame excuse to smoke.

Who are the public relation officer of this so called yeyebrety. You grant interview to say, you started smoking because you wanted to feel like a child again.

Why don't you start bedwetting again because you want to feel like a child again. Anyways, too much money can make you do stupid things sha. Best of luck.

#Money can't buy happiness, but I still want to have it. The reality!

You might probably be older than rema and you fail to understand his point of view, he is old enough to smoke he doesn't need any permission from anyone to smoke, read what he said again a second time to understand

Kukutente23:
I'm not disputing that
But this particular one is Yoruba

No, you can't say that, gentleman mike is far far older than that book you are talking about , are you telling me our grandparents who knew this folklore got it from that book?

Kukutente23:
A folklore song usually accompanies the story and its drawn from the main theme of the story and is short, more like a chant
The production song on the other hand is a full song that tells a story in itself

Do all folklore have a song ? I'm half igbo half Tiv I know many folklore from both tribes without a song

Kukutente23:
That's a song production not folklore song. Folklores usually have an accompanying song

Igbos have alot of these folklore if you read igbo history you will find similar folklore short stories moral lessons in the stories are the most important

Kukutente23:
That's a song production not folklore song. Folklores usually have an accompanying song

Give me the definition of a folklore song and song production?

Sharpsharp00123:
but how come d elephant didn't hear about d offer?

Cause he the elephant was the wanted animal, for the king to want the elephant that much means the elephant was not that popular in the kingdom

Thinktwicemybro:
The boy is too young to circulate his pictures. It's wrong

Is there anything like someone is too young to grieve publicly about his or her death?

Kukutente23:
No. Not this particular one
What song accompanies it in Igbo language?

Didn't you read the lyrics to the song , gentleman mike sample it

Tortoise
Nnam Eze akpatam enyi ( my king I have brought the elephant)

Elephant
Nwa mbe isi na ikpata onye ( small tortoise who did you say you brought?)

Tortoise
Asim Ana ya chebe enyi dube enyi odikam SI na akpatam enyi (I said let the earth protect and guide the elephant did I say I brought the elephant?)
Tortoise
Okwe enyi ga abu isi oche ( is it not the elephant that will be the chairman?)

Tortoise
Enyi na aga ayi so gi na Azu (elephant continue moving we are behind you)

Egoat:
Does he need crowdfunding?
Why does it need to be made public?
You lost a child and the first thing that came to your mind is announcing it on social media.

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To the idiots running mouth in my mentions; if you've never lost someone dearly to you, you perhaps won't understand.
At that point, nothing interests you anymore, not even food which is a necessity let alone social media. How you are grieving and the major thing on your mind is how to post it on 2go and LinkedIn is what I don't know. You can as well monetize the death.

Bunch of attention seeking retards.

You are an idiot if you expect people to grieve the same way Same pattern, don't judge what you don't know

Kukutente23:
The story is taken from the Alawiye books which is a compendium of Yoruba folklore

These folktale was known and told by our grandmothers who also were told when they were little, they learned it from this story book you talk about?

Egoat:
Does he need crowdfunding?
Why does it need to be made public?
You lost a child and the first thing that came to your mind is announcing it on social media.

Through out history people who announce deaths of their loved ones on TV and radio needed crownfunds I guess?

Kukutente23:
It WAS adapted from Yoruba folklore
What's wrong with that and isn't that obvious?

How was it adapted from Yoruba folklore? Explain please

Kukutente23:
This story is actually adapted from a Yoruba folklore
There's a song that accompanies it

Erin ka rele o wa j'oba
Erin kere Erin ke

This shows how cultures dilute and mingle with each other seamlessly regardless of human prejudices

Don't say it was adapted from Yoruba folklore, just say yoruba's have same folklore

discusant:
OP. You are still on Akuko Mike Ejiagha because the king said it clearly that he wanted a MAN, not an animal, who can bring an elephant to marry his daughter. Tortoise is no human being.

The story is about animal kingdom, the king is not a man , it's a lion the king of animals

bdon123:
U are a very big fool .with everything happening in naija..its gwo gwo gwo that matters to u.idiot

The you read what he wrote? Cause what he wrote captures what is happening in the country

allen113:
So after rejecting all the handsome men she went and settled for an animal wow

Nice story sha

The story is about the animal kingdom the king himself is an animal king, the LION

Codepain:
Nobody is blackmailing the North.
North is free to protest even the Ndigbo as long as Hausa is protesting in Hausaland Igbo in Igboland and Yoruba in Yoruba land

Must Ndigbo be mentioned in every conversation? Just mention Hausa Fulani and yoruba

Goodnewsforlife:
when u Igbos started killing yourself thinking it will hurt Buhari, did it remove a strand of hair from him?

Allow hausas to kill themselves, it won't touch tinubu one but

Na them go suffer am

Well it didn't affect buhari cause the igbos did not vote for buhari to be president, but these northern youths protesting are the reason tinubu is president they made tinubu president

Chinkoalhaji34:
This one no surprise me at all.

Na only Peter Obi's fans fit follow Ekpa for this kind wahala.

Instead of promoting peace, na destruction dem dey sponsor.

Simon ekpa is now in charge of not just biafra but arrewa republic? Wow

trutharena:
These Northern youths are just looking for attention, meanwhile, President TINUBU is busy transforming the nation with impactful policies. Their protest won't stop the progress we're witnessing across the country!

They are not looking for his attention they put him there in the first place so they are just reminding him that they made him president

Salewa97:
Reno is definitely not one to back down from any challenge.

VeryDarkMan should know that Reno has a way of turning the tables.

The man is a master of narratives! Let’s see how this unfolds; I trust Reno to handle it with his usual finesse.

Only gullibles like you trust Reno , he's pedophile

timilehin007:
Giving which yoruba sleepless night? You are just trying to find solace where none is...you are just comforting yourself, I can understand....it's your insecurities in Lagos and your obsession over Lagos that's giving you sleepless nights and heart attack...

Igbos are not giving you yoruba's sleepless nights over Lagos but we keep hearing igbo must go , igbos are danger to Yoruba land, keep igbos out of Yoruba land, igbos want to take over Lagos etc ? How do you sleep at night with these thoughts? You even write books about it ?

timilehin007:
Leave hausa out of your misery...we've been living comfortably with them for ages with no qualms at all....
This post shows it is in you people's gene to be arrogant and chest beating...that was how your supposing Messiah led your people in millions to untimely death and rendered many more homeless and destitutes

The fact that these once homeless and destitute igbos destroyed by war are now given yoruba's who has never been affected by war sleepless nights over Lagos shows how hardworking the igbos are, a tribe blessed by God almighty

fineberry:
this tribal rife between Yoruba and Igbo is eroding civility and that human dynamic that are capable of causing desired change towards growth, togetherness, peace and good human nature away. As a people we can't keep living like this....mind you, I'm not Yoruba neither I'm a Igbo.

Good morning.

The rife between Yoruba and igbo as you put it ,if one looks at it closer it's not hate but rivalry right from the beginning of it , no matter what these two tribe secretly admire each other in one way or the other, at the same time they are both trying to dominate one another

madridguy:
For Peter Obi and his noise making followers, it is a case of throw-away face if it happens in Igboland. Let it occurs in the North or Southwest, Peter Obi will dance naked in the streets and cry more than the bereaved.

The painful part of the whole matter is that his people will still be denying the obvious fact. Many of them cannot travel to their home again, many are doing their traditional wedding either in SW Or The North but they will still come out to be chest beating and deceiving themselves.

South East is part of Nigeria under president tinubu, if he can't stop the insecurity going on in south east then he is failing as the president of Nigeria, peter obi is not the president of Nigeria, he is not the president of south east region

Salewa97:
Reno is just stating the obvious!

It’s high time we call out this selective outrage. When tragedy strikes in the East, silence reigns, but let it be elsewhere and Peter Obi is quick to respond.

This hypocrisy is glaring, and it’s refreshing to see someone like Reno unmask it. If we truly want unity, then every life lost should matter equally, regardless of where it happens. Time for accountability!

Peter obi needs to question tinubus competency for failing to tackle the insecurity in this country especially in the south east, tinubu has failed south east Nigerians