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a picture showing a carpenter working on the roof akodi orisa

The carpenter is singing as he does the roof:

ByMoyo Okediji

The carpenter is singing as he does the roof:

Ẹ̀yin tẹ́ ń lóyún lé rodo-ríndín, hẹn-ẹn

Bọ́mọ bá yàgbẹ́ o

Baba rẹ̀ ní ó ko.

Translation:

You who conceive while your infants are mere suckling babies

When your infants mess their pants

Their daddies will change their diapers.

a picture of a sculpture at the akodi orisa

There’s nobody who will see this place and not be afraid

ByMoyo Okediji

“There’s nobody who will see this place and not be afraid,” the two men on the bike said this morning as they stopped and kept looking at our newest installation at the Àkòdì Òrìṣà.

Bí ìwọ́ bá ṣe rere, ara kì yíò ha yá ọ? I wonder where I got that quote from. Is it a Yoruba proverb?

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was from the Bible.

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