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Iyipada si ede oyinbo wa ni isale bayii (a translation into oyinbo is down just below)

Gêgê bí olùkô èdè Yorùbá mo mö wí pé ìyàtö wà láàrin "ìwà-pëlê" àti "ìwà rere" (iwa Omoluwabi). Nõkan tí mo ñ sæ gan an ni pé, a kò gbædö sæ pé kò sí ìyàtö láàrin níní ìwà-pëlê àti níní ìwà-rere. Ìdí tí mo fi ñ sæ bêë ni pé nílë Yorùbá, láàrin àwùdi ti mo fi ñ sæ bêë ni pé, nílë Yorùbá, àwùjæ Yorùbá nìkan ni a lè sæ pé ìwà-pëlê di ìwà rere. Ìy÷n ni pé láàrin örê ni a máa ñ sæ bêë. Bii apeere, nigba ...

Okwan tia yE mmusuo. There are no shortcuts to liberation. We should see that! We gotta stop putting energy behind half-court-shot-do-or-die strategies where we are hoping that others will save us.

It's like in The Healers (Ayi Kwei Armah) when all of the healers except Damfo wanted to put all of their energies behind supporting the general Asamoa Nkwanta as the "savior" who would in one felled swoop solve all of the problems that they had been working towards for decades. Damfo ...

As an Afrikan born in the Diaspora into a tradition of resistance who has never conceived of celebrating krakkkadays like christ-mess (christmas), it's often mindboggling to encounter continental Afrikans here in Ghana who have never conceived of NOT celebrating it...


Paradox: Those who seem to have the most ability to change things have the least desire to do so and those who have the most desire to change things seem to have the least ability to do so...