Egba, Ogun State-born indigenous African Sakara music exponent, Sanusi Aka, popularly known as S. Aka Baba Waidi, in two of his vinyls, illustrates my drift today. This he did in the albums recorded in 1959 and 1974 respectively. While the former was highly political, which he entitled Ibo fedira, (Federal election) the other was entitled Awon Orisha. The Awon Orisha track is a fabulous narrative of how some renowned deities in Yorubaland, in an ego clash and desirous of sorting out their supremacy battle, met with and had a conversation with God. Some of the deities were Ifa and Osanyin,…

Releasing The Rain of Abundant Blessings And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain ~ 1 Kings 18:45a Introduction Anyone that ever suffered the agonies of drought would never despise the rain, nor join hands to hinder its showers. And, whoever experienced the wretchedness of warped satanic contortions wouldn’t ever wish to downplay the significance of divine interventions. An uninterruptible, all-round, rain is the Lord’s favorite promise to His people (Joel 2:23). Whenever He sends His fire amidst our drought experiences, the rain is…

Have you ever been in a situation in which you told a child to do something, and he asks you why? “Why?” is one of the favourite questions of children. You tell a child to do something, and he asks: “why?” If you give him the reason, he will ask you “why?” again. In effect, what is the reason why you gave the reason you gave? For every answer you give, he might just continue asking you “why?” until you become fed up, refuse to answer him, or ask in turn: “why not?” “Freddie you must brush your teeth first…

Dear Chairman, It was about this time eight years ago, wasn’t it? I’m talking of course of when you took what was perhaps the most audacious, some may even say, most controversial political decision of your career at the time to run for the Presidency. You had talked and written about what was possible for over 20 years. Now, it was time to just get in there and do it! To show that Big Ideas was not a pipedream but a possibility. I don’t know which was more difficult: the decision to run or the decision – when you finally…