Browsing: Yorubaland

A quick recall of the historical past of the Ekitis vividly reminds of the gallantry of their ancestors during the eponymous inter-tribal wars tagged the Ekiti Parapo wars. The wars, which ended all the wars in Yorubaland, was unarguably the last and most protracted military campaign that plagued the Yoruba nation.

According to those who believe in this school of thought, a polygamist is not a man that marries more than one wife, but any man that has a wife at home and keeps a Mistress or Mistresses outside his matrimonial home. Among the Yoruba, polygamy is however not seen as anything bad, going by the agricultural advantage it brings to farmer-husbands who in the past years used their wives and children to cultivate their farms instead of hiring labourers.

If Yoruba must regain and retain its pride of place, if Nigeria must triumph over its today’s woes and travel beyond the socioeconomic boundaries that fetters it, such as those given above, we must begin to prevail on citizens to start to discourage fielding grandparents for political offices, a trend anti-clockwise to the emerging new world