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25/11/2023
THE TALKING DRUM (GANGAN)
A nightmare of sound technicians
"How can a drum be talking, and some people understand and interpret it to us as a message."
"It's a national pride, but Africa underrate what belongs to them."
"The Yoruba talking drum is probably the oldest mobile phone on Earth. One of the reasons why the armies of the Oyo Empire were formidable was because they could communicate with each other miles apart with the talking drum. It is not just a musical instrument. It is a language, like a computer language, and only the initiated can understand it. Beyond that, it is almost spiritual. Certainly esoteric."
"In modern times, all Nigerian music superstars that have achieved global cross over success with music of Nigerian origin, became big after incorporating the talking drum into their music. I am not talking of artistes who sing in English or pidgin. I refer to singers and performers who sing wholly or partly in a Nigerian language."
"Wizkid exploded in 2011 after featuring the talking drum in his debut studio album, Superstar. And the talking drum based song, Don't Dull, got to Number One internationally."
"Davido has used and continues to use the talking drum generously his albums. And Asake features the talking-drum on his unique sound, as does Burna Boy. There is no need for me to mention how people like King Sunny Ade, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, AKA Alhaji Agba, and Sir Shina Peter, amongst others, have used the talking drum to smile all the way to the bank."
"The human senses, especially our audiovisual senses, cannot resist being mesmerised by the rhythm of the talking drum. It grabs you!"
"I am giving all Nigerian and African artistes 'expo'. Instead of faking your death, if you want to blow, just record a song featuring the talking drum, and you can call me later. The talking drum was the secret ingredient Shina Peters referred to when he sang, 'Ibi ta tin modun ye wa. Kole ye won rara o. Kole ye won' in his hit tune, Ace." - Reno Omokri
12/11/2023
The Yoruba culture was on the spotlight in faraway London
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30/10/2023
🇳🇬 will forever hold a special place in my heart, as it was the very first West African country I had the privilege to explore. Over the course of my journey, I had the opportunity to visit some of Nigeria's most vibrant cities.
Lagos, the bustling economic hub of Nigeria, is a city that never sleeps. Its vibrant energy, breathtaking skyline, and the constant hum of activity make it a true metropolis. The juxtaposition of modernity and tradition in places like Victoria Island and the vibrant markets of Balogun make Lagos a city of captivating contrasts.
Abuja, the capital city, is a testament to the country's progress and aspirations. The grandeur of the government district, with its impressive architecture and well-planned streets, contrasts beautifully with the serene greenery of the A*o Rock. The sense of purpose and ambition that fills the air in Abuja is truly inspiring.
Ibadan, with its rich history and sprawling markets, left an indelible mark on my soul. The ancient city's impressive architecture and the warmth of its people made it an unforgettable experience.
Port Harcourt, with its bustling energy and the enchanting Niger Delta nearby, offered a unique blend of urban and natural beauty. The local cuisine and the rhythmic beats of the city's music scene were a true delight.
Akwa Ibom, known for its pristine beaches and lush greenery, felt like a paradise on Earth. The serene ambiance and the ever-smiling faces of the locals made it an oasis of tranquility.
Throughout my journey, what stood out the most was the boundless love and hospitality of Nigerians! You rarely hear Nigerians speak negatively of other nationalities! They love and embrace everyone! I am eagerly counting down the days until I can revisit these wonderful places and immerse myself in the love and beauty of Nigeria once more. -
29/10/2023
The Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, His Imperial Majesty Alhaji (Dr.) Abdulraham Ado Ibrahim is dead at 94. He built African most beautiful palace. May Allah grant him Al jannah firdaus.
12/08/2023
My unscheduled visit to and it was exhilarating.
06/07/2023
Ojude Oba festival is a successor of the Odeda festival, which was also an annual event in which the worshippers of several traditional religions such as Sango, Egungun, Osun, Ogun, Yemoja and co come together to showcase their identities by dancing in turns to drums and songs in front of the Awujale, Olisa and other important chiefs and the people of the town.
06/07/2023
It all began in 1896 when Chief Balogun Kuku, a prominent Ijebu son relinquished Christianity to embrace Islam which encourages polygamy because he had over thirty wives, over 200 slaves and other ardent followers.
Balogun Kuku's extreme wealth coupled with the respects and admiration the Ijebus had for him attracted many converts to Islam.
06/07/2023
Celebrated in grandeur and magnetic majesty, Ojude Oba, meaning 'King's fore-court' in Yoruba language is usually celebrated by about 1,000,000 people from different parts of the world and Nigeria, especially the Yorubas and most especially by people of Ijebu descent all over the world.
It is the biggest and most sophisticated cultural festival on the world.
Initiated to pay Homage and show respect to the Royal Majesty, the Awujale of Ijebuland three days after the Eid al-Kabir (Ileya) festival.
12/04/2023
No refund after payment’: Peace Mass Transit loses in court
Transport company, Peace Mass Transit has lost its legal battle in a matter bordering on refund of money to passengers for trips not undertaken.
The incident that led to the suit occurred on the 10th of February, 2021, when the Plaintiff, Patrick C. Chukwuma purchased a ticket from the Obollor-Afor branch of Peace Mass Transit Limited to convey him to Enugu.
Following a two hours delay occasioned by the absence of passengers, the Plaintiff returned to the ticketing office and asked for a refund of the N500 he paid as the transportation fare.
However, staff of the Defendant refused to refund the money, insisting that their company policy was that money paid for transport fare cannot be returned to the passenger and citing the statement written on their ticket to that effect as conclusive proof of their position.
When the Plaintiff tried to explain to them that their policy was unlawful, as the law mandates them to refund fares for services that have not been provided they retorted in a rude manner, prompting the learned counsel to leave their park and seek alternative means of traveling back to Enugu.
A letter written by the lawyer to the Peace Mass Group of companies demanding an apology and refund was neglected, prompting the lawyers law firm to institute the action.
Delivering its judgement, the Court through Hon. Justice C.O. Ajah declared the no refund policy as illegal, null and void in light of the provisions of Sections 120, 104, 129 (1) (a) and (b) (iii) of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, 2018.
The court further ordered the Defendant to pay the sum of N500,000 as damages to the Plaintiff.
Meanwhile, many Nigerians have been reacting to the judgment, describing it as an end to impunity among service providers.
Source: Coal city connect.
20/03/2023
I heard from a very reliable source that Uganda ladies are the most beautiful in Africa.
20/03/2023
Beautiful AI generated pictures.
09/03/2023
Lokoja, located in Kogi State, Nigeria, is the confluence point where two of West Africa's largest rivers meet - River Niger and River Benue. River Niger has a brownish hue, while River Benue appears greenish in color. The meeting point of the two rivers creates a distinctive "Y" shape.
08/03/2023
"Earlier today, it was a noble and extraordinary development for me to welcome His Excellency, Governor Ademola Adeleke, Executive Governor of Osun, and other top dignitaries at the unveiling ceremony of the OJAJAMORE in Osogbo as part of my mission to strengthen Nigeria's socio-economic growth. Significantly, encouraging substantial investments in the scalability of shopping malls with 100 percent local content remains a critical asset for market communities across cities in Nigeria."
"OJAJAMORE is designed to serve as a suitable market and melting point for agro-products, providing a more direct procurement route and long-term economic incentives to farmers while eliminating middlemen. Farmers and growers of various commodities stored at OJAJAMORE are intertwined with human development and national survival. They are the foundation of wealth distribution, as well as the enablers that allow us to be free of unemployment, hunger, and destitution."
"I’m committed to building OJAJAMORE in all Nigerian cities with the strategic philosophy of expanding the economic prosperity of individuals and our youths while making malls the prominent ideal places in the configuration of modern cities: mobility, cultural influence, social mixing, elimination of class segregation, etc. It continues to deliver inclusive and dynamic roadmaps for local market accessibility and preserve the footprints of traditional agro-products through technology. This is the ground-breaking shopping mall model that reinforces our traditional agro-commodity market values." -
08/03/2023
“We have so much coming in as sisters, when is our interior life ever put at the forefront? We constantly want to give to other people ... Too much of not caring for yourself is not a good thing. We’re bad at that as achievers. Self-care is a priority and we have to do it more.” - Ava DuVernay
Happy International Women's Day to my lovely black women!
08/03/2023
Beautiful pictures from Ghana's 🇬🇭🇬🇭🇬🇭 Independence celebration.
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05/03/2023
Beautiful handcrafted fashion items.
11/11/2021
*THE OLOWO OF OWO*
*The Legendary Olateru Olagbegi*
*He was one of 3 historical figures, whose destinies were intertwined. The other 2 were Awolowo & Ajasin. Ajasin was born 1908, Awolowo 1909 & Olagbegi 1910. One year separated each other.*
*When Prince Olateru Olagbegi was 6yrs old in 1916, he was taken before the famous Oracle in Owo, where it predicted that in 25yrs time he would be Olowo. He would reign for 25yrs & deposed for 25yrs before coming back on the throne.*
*Now true to the Oracle (1916), in 1941 after 25yrs, Prince Olateru Olagbeji was crowned Olowo of Owo. He reigned for 25yrs till he suspended 1966 & was finally deposed in 1968 by events of Western region crises 1962-65.*
*Oba Olagbegi was in exile for 25yrs in Ibadan, a prominent & athletic member, Ibadan Tennis Club. However in 1993 after 25yrs, Ondo Gov Bamidele Olumilua reinstated Olagbeji as Olowo to fulfil the Oracular prediction.*
*The Olowo occupies a special position amongst Yoruba Princes. He is regarded as a brother of the more famous Oba of Benin. Olateru Olagbegi came into prominence because of the rivalry he had with his great friend and cousin Chief Michael Ajasin. It was Olagbeji as Olowo in 1945, that sent Ajasin to the famous Forabey College Sierra Leone on Owo township Community scholarship. He came back to later be installed first Principal, Imade college Owo in 1949.*
*But 25yrs after being on the throne in 1966, Oba Olateru was chased away from his palace by angry citizens bent on toppling him. In the past that was unthinkable. In pre-colonial Yorubaland, Obas who lost favors of their people, were usually advised to sleep.*
*The leading Chief, would present him with a ritual calabash after which the Kabiyesi would be given 7days to take care of his estate and then retire to the royal chamber and have a final sleep. By 1960 Yorubaland was in a different dispensation & the Obas now had the Govt to contend with. Obas were no longer the Government.*
*It was Olagbegi desire to be part of Govt at all costs that harvested trouble for him. When his cousin Ajasin, the first Principal of Imade College Owo told Kabiyesi in 1951 of the formation of Action Group (AG), he was enthusiastic. He was young, dashing, had a good appetite for women. He was tall, gangling, athletic, loved sports & was a great tennis player.*
*But Ajasin was exact opposite of his cousin Kabiyesi Olagbegi. Ajasin was fastidious, a serious monogamist and an ideologue. But opposites attract. Both were unrelenting Yoruba nationalists and loved Owo with devotion.*
*As it happened, Chief Awolowo after he and his team kept vigil at Ile-Ife in 1951 to light the lamp with 16 eyes, retreated to Owo where they formally proclaimed AG at the Olowo's expansive Palace. Their enthusiastic hosts were Kabiyesi Olagbegi and Ajasin. But within a decade after then, they were sworn enemies.*
*Ajasin maintained his friendship with Awolowo, but Olagbeji pitched his tent with Ladoke Akintola, the embattled successor of Awolowo as Premier of Western region. During one of the political flares in Owo, Ajasin barely escaped with his life. His car was burnt. He was not just a Principal of Imade college Owo, he was also Member of House of Representative in Lagos. That was the era politics was not a full time job.*
*While Awolowo & Ajasin were going through crises, it was best of times for Olagbegi. In the crisis that rocked AG, Akintola secured the Premiereship and Awolowo was sent to prison. Oba Adesoji Aderemi resigned his Governorship and retreated to his Palace Ife. He declined to go back to the House Of Chiefs. When Alaafin Ladigbolu was offered headship of the House Of Chiefs, he declined. So Akintola offered it to Oba Olagbegi, who enthusiastically took it. He also enthusiastically supported Premier Akintola because as he said, he did not want his salary reduced to "penny a year", like Akintola did to Awo loyalist Odemo Of Ishara Oba Akinsanya.*
*Then the Coup of Jan 1966 turned the tables! For Olagbegi, the good times were over. Akintola was killed & First Republic was in dustbin of history. Olagbegi was in trouble. He sought help from Lt-Col Fajuyi the new military Governor. But his troubles endured. Col Adebayo, Fajuyi successor also could not help. Adebayo finally deposed Oba Olagbegi in 1968.*
*During his 25yrs exile, Olagbegi was referred to as Sir Olateru Olagbegi because he was knighted by the Queen Elizabeth II in 1960 for his services to the British Empire.*
*Then one day in 1993 after the military had deposed the 2nd Republic and Ajasin as Ondo first civilian Gov 1979 -83, Ajasin was in his house when he heard Olateru Olagbegi was in back in his Palace after 25yrs. Gov Bamidele Olumilua of Ondo state, took that decision. The Oracle has spoken indeed.*
*Long life had presented Olagbegi with the ultimate price. He outlived his succesor Kabiyesi Oba Ogunoye who was used to supplant him in 1968, but died in 1993. He also outlived his nemesis both Ajasin and Awolowo who died in 1987. When Olateru Olagbegi II died in 1998 as Olowo, his son Olateru Olagbeji III, SAN, CFR a senior Advocate, succeeded him.*
*Oba Olateru Olagbegi left behind 117 children amongst who were 35 lawyers including 10 High Court Judges, 25 medical Doctors, 22 Chartered Accountants, 23 Engineers and 111 University graduates!*
*Kabiyesi Oba Olateru Olagbegi II, an abiding Nigerian legend indeed !!!*
*Archives/Collation -R. Onwaeze*
*From Multiple Historical Sources*
29/08/2021
The Guitar boy exits the Stage!
Prof. Sir Victor Uwaifo (MON) (1 March 1941 - 28 August 2021)
He was a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor, University lecturer, music legend, and the first Honorable Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Nigeria.
Nigerian musician Sir Victor Uwaifo working out in the 1970s. "The Story of Joromi By Victor Uwaifo:"- " In ancient Bini Folklore, Joromi was a warrior ( Wrestler) who battled and defeated all possible rivals on earth. With no rivals on earth to engage in battle he decided to battle with people from the Afterworld. Defying warnings from the elders of the land he engaged in battle with a warrior from the Afterworld. He never returned to tell if he was victorious".
Source: Victor Uwaifo.
28/08/2021
How about a voyage on ?
26/08/2021
Taking the moon home.😍
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25/08/2021
When last did you see an ?
24/08/2021
African Textile Store😍
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24/08/2021
Reposted from 📍 #🇳🇬 Not many people know this but Africa was originally called Alkebulan . In Arabic, it means “The Land of the Blacks.”
Alkebulan also means the land of man kind, the garden of Eden in Hebrew.
23/08/2021
Motherhood, Africans posit is next only to the supreme Deity. Check out this amazing picture of the Yeyeluwa of the Odua nation breastfeeding the crown Prince of Ife Odaye (The Source).
23/08/2021
Reposted from 𝐌𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐧 𝐀 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩..⠀⠀
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has got to be the night we were with the Maasai tribe and we were having dinner with them. There was some thing about the singing and chanting and calling and the power in the mens voices that just made me feel emotional. I started to think about my ancestors and wondered if they sounded like that when they sang.⠀⠀
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Music was a way for slaves to express their feelings whether it was sorrow, joy, inspiration or hope. Songs were passed down from generation to generation throughout slavery... so I just started to wonder.⠀⠀
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I really can't explain the feeling that I felt in that moment but all I can really say is I encourage black people globally to visit Mama Africa it will change your life and put things into perspective⠀⠀
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Have you ever been emotional on a trip? Tell me about it below⠀⠀
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PS. The cover of this reel is a beautiful painting that a local painted that I thought was eloquently done and very detailed💕
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23/08/2021
Sisterhood ❤️😍🤩
23/08/2021
Are you aware that wrestling is the national sport of Senegal🇸🇳?
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22/08/2021
From the North of the Sahara to the South of the Limpopo, the African landscape is filled with colorful and eventful people.
Check out this flamboyant from Benin Republic🇧🇯
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