Yoruba Ronu

Sir:

It is the case that you believed that this "ruse" with
Akindele and Abosede would work. You surprise me,
incessantly, with your discredited argument that
you know me. Sir, it must be that you DO NOT know
me, and to the extent that my diplomacy must be
managed by those who know me, I have alerted Reston
that you are no longer to be allowed, under any auspices
or circumstances, to claim to speak for me. Akindele
I find to be totally childish and Abosede's conceptions
completely trivial. I hope these of your children do
not speak for you, for it would make a claim concerning
why our country remains the way it is. It is a great
tragedy that you could not tell that Akindele would
burn and crash, as he has. But since I put my mouth
where my heart is, I will spend the next two decades
proving to you that both Akindele and Abosede mean
nothing to one who follows the true light of Olodumare.
They are not the only ones, but you will also find
this to be true.

Sir, you bury your head in the sands like an ostrich,
relentlessly, but at this point the Americans can no
longer allow you access. So, your access is revoked
and if you try to come back, I shall inform my
Northern Nigerian brethren that the extent of your
disturbance is of a pagan bent, and we shall see
if "my power reach your power" as is your way.

I was completely taken aback by your... experiment,
mostly because I believed you at least had an idea
of how I had grown to be. But this your foolish
ruse has shown you, sir, to be a man of not very clever
ways. I realize that your emotional maturity is now
in question, and it should be. How, sir, how could
you imagine Akindele, as you sent him to me, to move
one inch further? OR Abosede with his trivial conceptions
of God and such? After all the time you have seen me
spend with elders in the Christian Church, sometimes
berating them for a lack of precision, you ought to have
known that I can only respect those who carry the true
light. Abosede does not, and you know it. And Akindele
is just the exemplar I had used to others to demonstrate
why I believe the Yoruba have their destiny set for them.
You would do well to now pay attention to developing your
sons and daughters and forget about me. For if you don't,
then you shall hurt more than these two symbols of friendship
that are YOUR symbols not mine. I am not your friend and
I am not the friend of your children. Rasta Pharaoh, sir,
walks alone. You would learn to do so as well...

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