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Small thinking is the African man disease.  Doing my small thing to survive  As far as it feeds me and my family  As far as I have a nice car As far as I have a big social title  As far as I have a nice house  That is it. That’s the end of our world We don’t yearn for innovation and grandeur  We don’t project ourselves beyond and above today and tomorrow  We have no project to conquer the world and spread our civilization  We have no will to power and affluence All we want is a small shop in the corner or a position in a cubicle  Ending up glamorous beggars in nice suits, spitting clever sentences, quota filling employees and subalterns for everyone else.  Sex is our dominant thinking  Alcohol is the fuel of our drivel Greed had turned us into monsters for each other Corruption has made us lazy and content. How to awaken the African man? Small thinking is the African man disease  We want everything to be handed to us We import ...

Other names Echú, Exú Venerated in Yoruba religion ,  Santería ,  Candomblé Region Nigeria ,  Benin ,  Latin America Ethnic group Yoruba people                             Image from wikipadia From the time of the first English translations of Yorùbá words in the mid nineteenth century, Èṣù has been rendered as "devil" or "satan".The first known instance of this came from Samuel Ajayi Crowther's "Vocabulary of the Yoruba" (1842) where his entries for "Satan" and "Devil" had Eshu in English. Subsequent dictionaries over the years have followed suit, permeating popular culture and Yorùbá societies as well. Lately, many online campaigns have been set up to protest this, and many activists have worked to correct it.There have also been quite a number of academic work examining the mistranslation. The translation on Google Translate took up the same earlier mistranslations. This led to a n...

The Meaning of Yoruba Names   By Ayodele Adeniran  Distributed by IrohinOodua   Profound Meaning Of Yoruba Surnames (Learn Yours Now!) There are many Yoruba names whose meanings are now lost due to the facts that the words forming the roots of those words are no longer in use.  For instance ask the young Master Olopade the meaning of his name and he will probably tell you that his name means " policeman has come". Ask Mr Olopade, his father, and he would probably tell you it means "the owner of the staff has come". The two of them would be wrong as Olopade actually means " the Opa devotee has come". The same goes for all other Opa names like Opatola, Opadotun etc. Those names show that the ancestors of the bearers of the names were worshippers or devotees of the Opa Cult otherwise called Awo Opa, one of the religion cults or secret societies proscribed by the British in colonial days.  Or imagine another scenario: Pastor Obafemi, the pastor o...