Ajadi!

Ajadi oooooo

Ajadi omo Olakunle. Ajadi iko omo olokun esin

Ajadi the great hunter; ogboju ode

Ajadi is a brave but stubborn man

Ajadi is like ewure the goat only in human form

Ajadi will listen to no one but himself

Not even Eledumare; he is a god unto himself

Ajadi oosa ti o l’eewo

Ajadi alagidi; alaigboran omo

Ajadi entered igbo alale simply because “the mangoes there are sweeter”

How did he know this?

Legend has it that no ordinary human enters igbo alale and comes out alive

But Ajadi came out alive and with stories too. Stories about the gods –– Awon alale, awon irumole, awon iwin eleni ati akanda eda –– not forgetting the sweet mangoes too

Ajadi has been warned severally by baba ifa to desist from entering igbo alale

But he would not hear! The mangoes are too sweet to go to waste and Ajadi is too greedy to let go

Ajadi is the proverbial omo alaigboran. Only destruction will teach him a lesson.

The gods are slow to react but their reaction can be fatal. A blow is all it will take for the lesson to be learnt.

Slowly but surely, the gods are gathering momentum for the blow against Ajadi.

Baba ifa is sounding his warning! . . . A ki ni k’omode ma d’te to ba tile d’agbo gbe

It seems Ajadi is ready to live in the bush alone hmm ... Ajadi.... 

Let us pray that Ajadi won’t pay the ultimate price for eating the sacred mangoes