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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by obiak4(m): 11:59pm On Jan 15, 2015
srcpt that actually ukuwani but deep though
arodan back then it's used to prank ppl in my neighborhood then there is this one have forgotten the name now if they send u to collect that it a knock on your head u swear and curse the person from your breath cos u can't actually say it to his face
in otueke there is a land know as "du-oma-bo" land of no return that where I think is his next journey from ABJ
MY 2/4 cowries contribution

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by otipoju(m): 12:20am On Jan 16, 2015
Bibol:
My dad tried this thing with me once. I trekked tire that day ehn! The day I read the book "My Father's Daughter" and learnt the meaning, I was no longer fooled.
The tricks our parents played on us as kids cheesy

Memories "My Father's Daughter" ... By Segun Mabel...

Did you ever read" Ade Our Naughty Little Brother"

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by tattesco(m): 1:07am On Jan 16, 2015
Hmmm. A really funny experience
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Eljay24(m): 1:16am On Jan 16, 2015
But if u are redirected 2 to three times u ought to know its false,
find where to cool ur heels"
grin

What is d meaning of ARODAN"
Cos I dunno,
Stayed in d US most of my Growing Years"
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Eljay24(m): 1:16am On Jan 16, 2015
But if u are redirected 2 to three times u ought to know its false,
find where to cool ur heels"
grin

But what is d English word for ARODAN"
Cos I dunno,
Stayed in d US most of my Growing Years"
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 1:44am On Jan 16, 2015
grin grin grin
Funny enough..two days ago, while at work I remembered arodan and i started laughing. My colleagues thought i was going crazy.

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by gbola97(m): 1:46am On Jan 16, 2015
OrlandoOwoh:
I was never sent, but I've sent other children. Chai! Ki l'omode mo ju ko ma yii tyre?
ha ha
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by dolapochrist: 3:55am On Jan 16, 2015
Laitesmart:


That must hav bin d english version
...

help me get the book written by Segun Awati
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Ishilove: 6:30am On Jan 16, 2015
Scrypt:


Loooooool. What ignorance can do to someone sha.

Your story points in the direction of the South precisely Delta? grin
Very correct grin
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:05am On Jan 16, 2015
GuyFawkes:
ARODAN = My journey shall never end.

Interesting. Doesn't the meaning give it away as a trick?
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by bluegrey: 7:11am On Jan 16, 2015
Mine was 'joko pepe'. When we first heard the word, we asked our mom's friends what it was. They said it's 'something'. That some are blue, some are pink and some are yellow. It got us excited, as we just got back from US and didn't understand a word of Yoruba.
I will never forget the day my mom sent my brother and I to our aunt's house nearby to collect 'joko pepe'. We ran there in excitement.... we sat for hours....

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:16am On Jan 16, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:


Interesting. Doesn't the meaning give it away as a trick?

Most of us who fell for this had little or no understanding of the lingua.
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:25am On Jan 16, 2015
Scrypt:


Most of us who fell for this had little or no understanding of the lingua.

Ah, I see. So you've been tricked as well?
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:29am On Jan 16, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:
Ah, I see. So you've been tricked as well?

Yea well, I only had a whit of understanding of my native tribe growing up.

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:33am On Jan 16, 2015
Scrypt:


Yea well, I only had a whit of understanding of my native tribe growing up.


I like the humor.

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:38am On Jan 16, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:
I like the humor.

cheesy. The humor likes you too.
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:46am On Jan 16, 2015
Come to think of it, this is a good platform to underline the importance of learning cultural language. Where is Fulaman198? tongue

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 7:47am On Jan 16, 2015
Scrypt:


cheesy. The humor likes you too.

Oh, I know it does. And in all it's forms too smiley

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by HzRF(m): 10:26am On Jan 16, 2015
Laitesmart:
I was relaxing yesterday in my room when a child came in with a message from his mum asking him to come collect the ARODAN his mum gave to me. I couldn't stop laughing after sending the boy on his way as he just took me down the memory lane.

Well. Yoruba parents can be funny at times. They sometime send their errant children on mission impossible in a futile search quest.

When we were still young and highly stubborn or disturbing... Our parent would always use the ARODAN approach to get us busy... They would always ask us to go and collect ARODAN from somebody. On getting there, the person will redirect you to another person who will in turn redirect you to another person till you get all tired since ARODAN is the only Yoruba word that has no meaning used to punish erring or disturbing children.

The last time I was sent on such mission... I suffer ooo!!! I was redirected close to twelve times before the last man took pity on me and ask me to go tell my mum that he would send it thru his child.

What was your own ARODAN experience?

It was not a joke oo... Actually I got to know itz ARODAN when I grew up I know it to be "EWE-IJOKO-PEPE(LEAF OF ENDLESS SITTING DOWN) if am right
My mum came back from work that day, I was disturbing her to give me money for biscuit (kid stuff) little did I knw she will play a fast one on me, after I continue to disturb her, she finally agree but under 1 condition "u will go to( baba Temilorun we live in the same Street)to get me EWE-IJOKO-PEPE(ARODAN), back then our area was still new and we do get vegetables like Bitterleaf,ewedu e. t. c from this man (Baba Temilorun)
I just thought EWE - IJOKO - PEPE (ARODAN) was another type of vegetable, I dashed out of the house, ran as fast as my leg could carry me, on getting there I met baba Temilorun conversing with a man
Shylishly i told him " my mother told me to tell you that I should come for EWE-IJOKO-PEPE(ARODAN) on hearing this he didn't act suspicious it was just normal, he only ask" do you want it in large quantity? "I nodded in affirmative, then he told the man he was conversing with to shift so that I could sit, then called his Wife that" David is here for EWE - IJOKO- PEPE OO
After 5mins, noting show up, 10,15,20mins no show. After 1 hr it was still pending like ecobank network during ileya festive season. After 3hrs of sitting I was released what of the leaf? I asked he said don't worry just go home
On getting home I told my mom what occurred she just said don't worry. My three sisters, my mum and our neighbours were just making jest of him it was an unexpected coup Like IBB /GMB stuff, still I didn't get the picture, I was like what's funny she send me on an errand and I went there, didn't get the stuff, came back home, narrate the issue to her, then you start. Making jest of me individually and in conjunction
Later 1 woman came to fetch water in our house, she met them on the jest making she was told what transpired. She called me and narrate the meaning of ewe-ijoko-pepe, ewe(leaf) IJOKO (sitting down) pepe(long period of time), my mom then told how it was used in the olden days to teach a child lesson and also to improve his brain expect u are dull EWE-IJOKO-PEPE,(ARODAN or any equivalent name ) is meant to be used on a child once in a life time, all her children have gone through this and all of us fell for it, so I was not alone but am the latest
It was then it dawn on Me that I have been played for the past 3hrs+, I got the picture late like the dead staring at his own obituary. Since then I have kept the lesson in left hand that when I gave birth I will use it on my children. I didn't know itz still in existence
We yorubas we are just too sophisticated in everything am sure ARODAN was discovered by an uneducated man

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by deewhone(f): 10:53am On Jan 16, 2015
arodan is different 4rm wuh u described here. arodan is to make u stay @ a point and nt sending u on errands, d one u describedi 'my journey will neva end'
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by GuyFawkes: 3:02pm On Jan 16, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:


Interesting. Doesn't the meaning give it away as a trick?

ARODAN doesn't mean My journey shall never end actually,but when I was in secondary school, senior students sent the junior ones to go ask another student for a book called "My Journey Shall Never End", then that one sends you to another one and on and one till a good samaritan decides to put you out of your misery by letting you know you're on a wild goose chase cheesy.
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 3:47pm On Jan 16, 2015
GuyFawkes:


ARODAN doesn't mean My journey shall never end actually,but when I was in secondary school, senior students sent the junior ones to go ask another student for a book called "My Journey Shall Never End", then that one sends you to another one and on and one till a good samaritan decides to put you out of your misery by letting you know you're on a wild goose chase cheesy.

A fool's errand. It sounds like a good way to get rid of annoying kids cheesy

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by macof(m): 6:07pm On Jan 16, 2015
scribble:
say no to child abuse

Are you high? How is this child abuse?

Why does anything African irritate u morons?

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by ArcToyin(m): 7:13pm On Jan 16, 2015
Laitesmart:


That must hav bin d english version
lol. U funny die
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Fulaman198(m): 3:03am On Jan 17, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:
Come to think of it, this is a good platform to underline the importance of learning cultural language. Where is Fulaman198? tongue


It's extremely important smiley

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 3:16am On Jan 17, 2015
Fulaman198:


It's extremely important smiley

Yes, it is. I didn't mean to put you on the spot, Fula. Hope you're doing well.

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Fulaman198(m): 3:24am On Jan 17, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:


Yes, it is. I didn't mean to put you on the spot, Fula. Hope you're doing well.

I am just been very busy hope you are also doing well dear

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 5:04am On Jan 17, 2015
Fulaman198:


I am just been very busy hope you are also doing well dear

Busy is good smiley
Thanks, I can't complain.
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Fulaman198(m): 5:18am On Jan 17, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:


Busy is good smiley
Thanks, I can't complain.

I'm happy to hear that, life is treating you well I hope? smiley
Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 5:32am On Jan 17, 2015
Fulaman198:


I'm happy to hear that, life is treating you well I hope? smiley

Just a bit of stress lately, but overall ok.

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Fulaman198(m): 2:56pm On Jan 17, 2015
EnlightenedSoul:


Just a bit of stress lately, but overall ok.

I'm glad to hear that

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Re: The Yorubas.... Your 'arodan' Experience.... by Nobody: 5:55pm On Jan 17, 2015
Fulaman198:


I'm glad to hear that

Thank you, Fula smiley
All the best to ya.

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