Off The Record: Oranmiyan

Araba:

I hear your response. I am, on matters of religion,
a philosopher and student of the ways of Jesus Christ.
The truth is that I am religious about my peace of
mind, and if religion is truly informed by choice,
then I am a man of pure and total islam, completely
divorced from the laws and ways of the Holy Prophet
Mohamed. But since I have a perfect understanding
of the historical and moral (eternal) context of
the Christian way, I am considered Christian. What
actions I do take are premised upon the apriority of
morality and its implications.

By the way I have met your friend, one Professor
Akiwowo of Ile Ife. He was a good man.

On the issue of Southern Nigerian sovereignty, no one
I report to any longer doubts that I have the IQ of
an Egyptian Pharaoh and thus must be a Nigerian Pharaoh.
The issues have become much more traditional, at least
relative to the world of a pharaoh. The question remains
of whether I was able, during my era, to meaningfully
organize the intelligence of the Nigerians and help
transform the Nigerian, and Negro, into a productive,
capable person. To this end, my priority has been to
address fundamental deficits in the African story, which
has led to me using most of my resources, bequeathed to
me upon discovery of my prowess wrt KMT, to cultivate
leadership. In fifteen years the darkness would have
enveloped all of Nigeria if care is not taken. And this
darkness is not caused by lack of electrical power, but
instead by the unenlightened spirit which has, quite recently,
claimed to represent you, Araba. Enlightenment is a concept
not alien to the Yoruba and I'm surprised that you have not
displayed righteous anger against those of your people who
have so disgraced the testimony of your character and the name
of your fathers by foolishly obeying the will of evil spirits
and the negative output of our history. For example, the
notion of sacrifice is NOT to give one command over the spirit
of life, but to sensitize one to value. The Jewish Torah
is the authority on ebo, as you call it, and until you can
disprove to one such as myself that the sacrifice of a chicken
falls under Levitican law, then I shall not be disposed to
take seriously the Yoruba man who will sacrifice a chicken
and not know that YHWH then requires him to write, in witness,
with the blood of the chicken and its feathers as a pen,
the story because of which the chicken was to be killed. This
is called "orin" and there is "oko orin" and "obo orin", that
you call "okurin" and "obinrin". They are the male and female
spirit, implying that "orin" is a semantic form related to
"spirit." There is much more to discuss, but it would be wise
for your advisors to be able to identify exactly how your current
appreciation of the notion of sacrifice is not complete without
a knowledge of the logical foundation of the Law of Moses.