THE PYTHON AND ITS MEAL

THE PYTHON AND ITS MEAL

ByMoyo Okediji

There is a revolution going on in Nigeria.

They called it, at first, #EndSARS.

Then it morphed into #endswat.

Like an arrow in flight, nobody knows where it is going.

The youth revolution in Nigeria has caught the entire country by surprise.

The youths of Nigeria are incredibly talented.

Nigerian youths have been handed nothing by my generation.

My generation is the generation of pythons.

My generation of pythons can swallow everything and anything up whole and alive.

But after a python swallows up its victim whole, it cannot move from the spot.

Orin Yorùbá: Yoruba Hymn:

Orin Yorùbá: Yoruba Hymn:

ByMoyo Okediji

YORÙBÁ DÌDE

Ọmọ Yorùbá ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Ẹyin Yorùbá ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Gbogbo Yorùbá ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Ọjọ́ ti pé, ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Ẹ má sùn mọ́, ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Iṣẹ́ ti yá, ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Èrù ò bà wá, ẹ dìde

Dìde, dìde, dìde.

Àyà ò fò wá, ẹ dìde

the picture shows the youngest artist at the Akodi Orisa Center in Ile Ife.

Two New African Proverbs

ByMoyo Okediji

Two New African Proverbs:

1. The same people who place their knee on your neck will also be the first to ask “Why can’t you breathe?”

2. The same people who are causing your sadness will also be the first to ask “Why can’t you laugh?”

(Adapted from the Yoruba proverb, “Ẹ́ni tí ó bá sọ ni di olóríburúkú ni ó kọ́kọ́ má a ń fi bú ni: