₦airaland Forum

Firroda:
As a yoruba boy who can read and write in Yoruba, I find that very painful to read, had to read very very slowly to comprehend. Oyinbo culture don finish us

LegendHero:
Let me translate it for you. I don’t know ami ohun much like that which explained why you might not understand it well. Also, I used a proper Oyo dialect.

—Oyo Alaafin (Oyo decendant of the Alaafin)
—Ojo pa sekere omo atiba (Rain must not beat sekere Son of Atiba)
—Oyo nipe kolowo ko gbowo (Oyo said the creditor should collect his money)
—Oni koni iwofa gba tire (He also went to tell the debtor (Iwofa - a system where people use their family as collateral to borrow money) not to pay his debt)
—Ase kole ba di’ja, ko le ba daapon (Not knowing that the reason why Oyo did this is so that fight can happen)
—Komo oba le ri ‘n muje (So the prince can eat)
—Oyo gbin agbado oran seyinkule elenkule (Oyo planted a wicked mystery maize/corn of trouble at another man's backyard)
—Elenkule o gbodo faatu, be ni ko si gbodo faaya (The owner must not uproot it, and he must not shred it)
__Omo iku, tiku kogbódò pa
(child of death who cannot die)
----Omo Arun, tarun kogbódò see
(child of pestilence who cannot be tied down by sickness)
----Omo Ofo, tofo kogbódò see(child of calamity whom calamity can't afflict)

All this eulogy of Oyo is just showing the empire might. Imagine planting a bad maize at the back of one’s compound and telling him not to uproot it nor shred it. Like you’re showing your might and power over them.

Firroda:
As a yoruba boy who can read and write in Yoruba, I find that very painful to read, had to read very very slowly to comprehend. Oyinbo culture don finish us

LegendHero:
Let me translate it for you. I don’t know ami ohun much like that which explained why you might not understand it well. Also, I used a proper Oyo dialect.

—Oyo Alaafin (Oyo, the descendant of the Alaafin)
—Ojo pa sekere omo atiba (Rain must not beat sekere, Son of Atiba)
—Oyo nipe kolowo ko gbowo (Oyo said the creditor should collect his money)
—Oni koni iwofa gba tire (He also went to tell the debtor (Iwofa - a system where people use their family as collateral to borrow money) not to pay his debt)
—Ase kole ba di’ja, ko le ba daapon (Not knowing that the reason why Oyo did this is so that fight can happen)
—Komo oba le ri ‘n muje (So the prince can eat)
—Oyo gbin agbado oran seyinkule elenkule (Oyo planted a wicked mystery maize/corn of trouble at another man's backyard)
—Elenkule o gbodo faatu, be ni ko si gbodo faaya (The owner must not uproot it, and he must not shred it)
__Omo iku, tiku kogbódò pa
(child of death who death cannot kill)
----Omo Arun, tarun kogbódò see
(child of pestilence who cannot be tied down by sickness)
----Omo Ofo, tofo kogbódò see(child of calamity whom calamity can't afflict )

All this eulogy of Oyo is just showing the empire might. Imagine planting a bad maize at the back of one’s compound and telling him not to uproot it nor shred it. Like you’re showing your might and power over them.

Okutanla1:
The Great Oyo Empire.

thundafire:
shut up ur mouth how did Oyibo finish us all this nonsense force down our throats by our useless politicians and u believe. Did they stop Nigeria from developing abi na our people dey steal go outside.

If not for Oyibo will U be using Handsets or know about Android abi u for the Alaafin house as sacrificial ram wen him die. Travel out and compare ur country to the Oyibo then u will know that they have strong institution and not rubber-stamped as we have here

SlyDev:
Yoruba civilization is the best, Omo see culture and greatness in one picture.

If I'm not Yoruba, I will be jealous of them.

BKayy:
The picture is from early 20th century (after Amalgamation).
By then, Igbo businessmen have started developing estates in Lagos.

DubaiLandLord1:
Is this also Oba Alaafin Ladigbolu I?

seunmsg:
Igbos ladies were still dressing naked when the picture was taken.

Ikwereanlion:
Nice pics but the pics is not African enuf

BKayy:
You mean the Igbo women in your picture that wearing rare copper spirals worth atleast 12 million Naira in today amount on their legs are naked?

If you want to talk about people being naked, talk about the Yoruba women in the picture below that the few things they are wearing is worth nothing

You can't compare yourselves with Ndigbo. There has never been a time we were mates

BKayy:
You mean the Igbo women in your picture that wearing rare copper spirals worth atleast 12 million Naira in today amount on their legs are naked?

If you want to talk about people being naked, talk about the Yoruba women in the picture below that the few things they are wearing is worth nothing

You can't compare yourselves with Ndigbo. There has never been a time we were mates

LamidiCownu:
12 million naira
Ipod bureau of lie and statistics.
The same ibo women living on trees naked abi another one

BKayy:
The picture is from early 20th century (after Amalgamation).
By then, Igbo businessmen have started developing estates in Lagos.

By the way, I never knew we would get to a level when Yorubas will start celebrating what the white men built as theirs.

Lol. These people are more Shameless than I thought.