Before It Is Too Late: Let Us Act Now, We Are A Nation Almost Conquered

The Yoruba Nation is almost a nation captured. As  far as I can conclude, we as Yoruba people are a people completely in distress and almost losing control of our security and overall identity as a people. Or so it seems judging by events of the past years. But as the saying goes: “Iro ni ibaaka npa, Eiye Awoko loga”. We will never lose this war of recapturing our destiny and grabbing back our nationhood. It is the old saying that : “Agbara ojo oni ohun o ni ile wo, onile nio ni gba fun”. We are up to the task and it must be done to salvage our pride and entrench our foothold as a nation.

It is an unarguable fact that the Omoluabi traits in us have put us in trouble of losing all that makes us a proud nation and a respected race, though our resilience and agility would see us through these times. We are going to leave behind us the assault of foreigners on our land and will get out of our current bondage under the Fulani Empire and its Songhai adventurism incursions. Blaming our old fathers for losing control is not the issue now but how to forge ahead with our sanctity still as intact. Let us put behind the blames of our past leaders and our colonial predators. Let us put on an armour of mental and psychological fight and defeat the encroachers and slave traders parading as national leaders. We have almost been conquered but we wont be defeated even though fears and confidence lacking are running us into a state of disillusionment. To say it broadly, we are overwhelmed with confusion and being so contaminated by some elements surrounding us; those we call our friends and who have come from behind to throw a blockade on our wheel of progress. We shall overcome despite our current state of confusion, or did I say we are confused? May be some slip of the pen but how do we describe our current situation in Yorubaland?

“As a people so well-endowed, we wont be subdued, drawn aground or subjugated all by the  circumstances of our niceties and good brotherhood which we have in the past demonstrated to our current enemies. Our good nature and well- nurtured humanism will fight our fight because with open minds, we always embrace all around us and wish well for them in our humanism and loving natures as a people who through our endowed cultural heritage want goodness for all around us.“

Our leaders are currently uncoordinated, either because they have lost control of what they should be holding firmly or they understand what they are doing and want to ‘dakeja’ not to confuse an already delicate situation and lose total control, but to methodically resolve our challenges with wisdom and “ogbon agba” as many of our leaders have been described as enbodiments of innate sense and maturity in their handle of difficult issues

Undoubtedly,  Yorubas are a people with  unique ways of tackling dangerous issues, especially those that concern our Yoruba nation’s security and the welfare of our people. We wont succumb to the evil hands of killers and expansionists.

But as I put this together, we look like a people already conquered and defeated in ego, pride and even in our dedicated nationalism, losing all fabrics of our natural existence. Far from it. our resilience and stylish handling of matters will see us through and the spirits of our fore-fathers will fight the war. We won’t be captured.

As a people so well-endowed, we wont be subdued, drawn aground or subjugated, all by the  circumstances of our niceties and good brotherhood which we have in the past demonstrated to our current enemies. Our good nature and well- nurtured humanism will fight our fight because with open minds, we always embrace all around us and wish well for them in our humanism and loving natures as a people who through our endowed cultural heritage want goodness for all around us.

You keep wondering how did we get here?. A people so influential, exposed, rich in culture and carrying all traits of humanism. A people who have once built an enviable nation which even surpassed France and many European countries in the past. We have always been dedicated to good and natural causes, showing care and compassion to all. We are a people with distinctive vision and so admired and loved all over the world. How dare we are being turned to slaves and second rated citizens on our own land?

 Truly so, we are a people so broken, bruised and brutalised in ego and subjugated in our self-esteem, but our spirit is never conquered. We are like the dedicated husband  who put everything to his marriage to make it successful but only to discover after some years of marriage the wife we so much love to attain success for suddenly turn round to take the position of the husband and overriding and turning the Lord of the home. She would soon realise that: “Ohun ti agba fin je eko, abe ewe lowa.  A ni ki won wa jeun, won wa muwa lowo dani. Isedale Oduduwa o ni gba funwon”.

But we have to act swiftly and dismantle their ‘Ile Esu’ their so called conquering tool which they are mounting everywhere to supplant our Royal establishment. Their Palaces down the South must be crushed and we should tell them we are Omo oko and not Omo ale. We are being slapped on the face and we will resist their conquest. We are Yorubas. Just Imagine this video here and see their scheming tactics

Ogede n baje, a lonpon si ni. How dare? They are upturning our culture, slapping our Royals in the face and showing it with impunity, installing Royalty in our Royal fathers backyard and daring them to do their worse.

Are we in our real World or are we being so embalmed in what I will call hypnotic stupor while right in our eyes, we are losing our identity as Yoruba race. They will not succeed. Iro ni won fi iyen pa

 Let us wake up as Yoruba Kingdom. Let us recapture our lost future now and grab our leadership role in Africa. We are the light of the glory of the black race and the future to assume this role must not be mortgaged. We will fight their ethnic-cleansing and return them back to their desert. Our warriors are not relenting as they are watching. The encroachers seem consolidating their enslavement tricks, rounding up their power grab in our region and consolidating their power bases in Yoruba land. They will fail and be disgraced.

How did we get here? How are we going to surmount this as our future is fading away? We are up to the task. We must arise as Yoruba Nation and tell the World we are no cowards. There is a war at hand and we must fight it and defeat it with our style of fighting. Omo Oba wa o gbodo sojo. The gods are with us and there is no giving up. We must fight to our last drop of blood to defend our humanism and cultural heritage before the ‘atohunrinwas’ complete ‘siwanipo’ action. Now is the time to act. Omo Yoruba, E gbera so. Omo oko niwa. Our land must be salvaged. Arise, Oh OODUA NATION