THE FALLEN GENERATION: TAKE ACTION

A nation without a leader is a fallen nation. The persistent misinformation, misrepresentation and misinterpretation of the Yoruba Religious Culture is because of a lack of systematic education of its foundational concepts and pillars of truth in the National Academic Curriculum. 

Before the colonial era, the Yoruba society has its way of educating its people about its culture and ways and values and Taboos, as a member of the family or as a member of the community. 

In fact, Yoruba has a saying that "it takes 2 eyes to give birth to a child but it takes 200 to raise the child". The Yoruba educational structure before colonization was communally oriented.

This link of Knowledge transfer from generation to generation (Education) was broken upon colonization. 

Now that colonization has taken place and gone, the present governments of the indigenous people are supposed to unwind the colonial ties but take the colonial lessons. 

The system of education has changed, people now have to go to school to learn value systems because the school session has separated them considerably from the social system that used to be the system of education (OF VALUE AND WORK), where they learn by doing, not by reading.

As we have chosen to adopt the Oyinbo style which has proved also effective in raising their own environment to such excellence that we aspire to, we ought to switch the knowledge transfer medium of the Yoruba in digraphs way of life using contemporary machinery - School. 

Simply put, Yoruba Religious Studies should be an ACTIVE Academic Curriculum from Nursery school level. 

YORUBA LANGUAGE STUDIES MUST BE A COMPULSORY SUBJECT AS WELL AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 

This is the Leadership of the Rising Generation. 

We have to learn from the colonial agents, we have their Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) which is designed to make the children get the rudiments of the Gospel and Bible Stories. And the same for Arabs, who created the Islamic Religious knowledge. 

These stories are fascinating stories that make the idols (called Angels) of those people as the only divine superheroes that existed, thereby creating a love for their race in children's innocent hearts, while the religions go on a ferocious hate propaganda against Yoruba Indigenous religion, philosophy and history; we see that manifest in a form of self-hatred demonstrated by an innate suspicion of anything indigenous.

The Yoruba thus fearfully abandon his culture and tradition to cling forcefully, beggarly to Jesus and Mohammed superheroes to deliver them from their own wicked ancestral demons. 

The Yoruba culture was simply created to become a stench to Yoruba, something that painfully, some Yoruba are wishing will crumble forever and be ground to dust and forgotten in the lake of fire. It hurts me deep, these words I'm saying. But Ifá ò leè pin. It can't. Òtítọ́ ló ń gbé ni lékè.

It is time for Yoruba to tell the story of their history and philosophy as it is well clearly stated in Ifá. 

This much I know is a simple step, I don't think this needs any back and forth.

Get your representative in your parliaments into a discussion and present this petition. Tell them that Odùduwà sent you, tell them ALL THE IRUNMOLES of Yoruba sent you:

TO INCLUDE YORUBA RELIGIOUS STUDIES IN ACADEMIC CURRICULUM;

TO MAKE YORUBA LANGUAGE AS COMPULSORY AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 

With:

Babalawo Akomolafe Wande, The Secretary, International Council of Ifá Religion, Oluwo Ijo Ọ̀rúnmìlà Adúláwọ̀, Iwori-Osa Temple, Ijomu Akure 

&

Babaláwo  Folorunṣo Adetunji, The Àràbà Awo Ìṣẹ̀ṣe of Ondo State.