The Tradition of My Fathers

The Awo is a concept originated, in Awada-Ifa,
as the allegory concerning two Baale's, one
good one bad. Their father, as the eternal
story goes, had been rich you see. But one
day fell ill and died. One of the Baale's
inherited his father's house, the other
moved out and prospered in a new land, and
established himself as veritable reminder
of HOW the old man himself established... himself.
The Baale who lived in the Chief's old house,
he was ill-mannered and ill-tempered, for he
could not learn the lessons that his brother
had learned, and so in traveling his
brother had spoken with their father. The
presence of the father was upon the son
who left his father's old house.
The Babalawo is who observes ALL INFORMATION
from the two "Ile's" where the Baale's
live and analyzes these in tandem. It is
how he makes his curious divinations
when people from "near and far" come
for his insight into what ails them,
after all, the only thing that ails
a people is their king. An awo is
thus a king in disguise, in the
tradition of the ancient and earliest
pharaohs. He walketh silently amongst
men, is their mantra.

The above synopsis of traditional Yoruba
life is meant to demonstrate an inherent
"wisdom" in the way of the tradition
of my Fathers, the Nigerian people of
West Africa. My Fathers make the claim
that they are wise, and seeing as I have
not achieved materially what they have,
no matter what I know of God, then I must
give them the benefit of the doubt, and
TRUST that my fathers know what is right.
But what is right can never be corruption
and so it MUST then be that my opinion
on the ways of our fathers has been elicited
that I might, in some way, find a just
arbitration as concerns the rot of corruption
that has so decimated the legitimacy of
the authority of my fathers.

The cultural identification of Nigeria is
done using abstractions that can all be related
to "a tradition of fathers and sons," something
of a patriarchal monarchy of wise men for whom,
from time to time, could come a son wiser than
all the fathers. We do not have to go too far
from Africa to find in contextual relevance
a culture that makes the same claim as we do
in Africa. We call them the Jews, though they
are simply "White Africans." These are to be
distinguished from the White Settler Africans
whose fathers have a more controversial... tradition.
The irony is then why it is those of the White culture
who follow the African tradition of Fathers and Sons,
the cultures sensitive to value through the practice
of ritual sacrifice that are persecuted.

So, yes, we in Nigeria who accept a tradition of
fathers and sons and a culture of sensitivity
to value through the morally inspired practice
of ritual sacrifice can be said to be Jews. Why?
The gradations in logical explication behind the
ritual practices of the religions of "animist" Nigeria
do not escape the inherent "wisdom" of a tradition
of fathers--one must be able to explain in wisdom
one's practices, and while there are those practices
of the occult meant to command the spirit of life,
the sanctioned ritual practices of the Nigerian practitioners
are all explainable through the Yoruba concept of
"ogbon" or wisdom. Ojogbon is he who bears the weight
of a critically inspired outlook on the reality of our tradition,
for there are only but a few implications relevant to a culture
of fathers and sons, the primary one concerning HOW to manage
a state of affairs where one or more sons are wiser in that
era than all the fathers notarized as fathers. It is why
the story of Jesus is particularly relevant to Nigeria,
for though I administer Chief Akarue's grave, I do not know
what his memory has to do with stealing money meant, Vice
President Jonathan, to be used to help our people escape
from their DESPERATE, sir, desperate situation. The Jewish
State always makes the de facto claim that because of the
"ogbon" the wisdom inherent in all cultures birthed from
the father-son relationship, and because of the ability to
reduce the book of Leviticus and the Laws of Moses to
a logical reality--as Jesus did--all religions pertaining
to ritual sacrifice must withstand the logical scrutiny
of the book of Leviticus, demanding a day of judgment for
those who will not update their practices to fit the wisest
judgment of the tradition of my fathers. That the Vatican
mocks the State of Israel's ability to make this claim
explicitly is only temporary. Once the State of Israel
and her representatives AGREE with me that the Books of
Isaiah and Ezekiel give a formative vision "as concerns"
the only way in which peace can exist in Jerusalem,
the only state of a JEWISH government that is just,
then the Middle East Problem is solved logically.
We have, Mr. Vice President, light at the end of
the tunnel. My advice would be, sir, to always
place morality first, and since you have said that
this "the way of our fathers" is all you know,
having not been FORCED in indignity to accept
a tradition of Christianity you neither understood
nor knew anything about, pending your future
conversion to the correct interpretation of
the Church of Christ I trust that the guidance
of our fathers embodied in the memory of Chief
Akarue shall do justice to the ogbon, Ojogbon,
that our fathers exhibited when, like us,
Vice President, they walked the earth.

Your Son.