Igbimo Ayekan Afrika

Idahun

Mo nse alagbawi igbimo Yoruba losi | I am advocating an agenda of efforts towards:
1) Isepilese Ayekan Yoruba si ilu ti o ndaduro. | Actualising the Yoruba country as a self-determining jurisdiction (country) and
2) Isepilese Ayekan Africa (parapo awon ilu Africa) | Actualising Ayekan Afrika (the commonwealth of African nationalities) and
3) Kojusi ikaiye ede Yoruba ati esin Ifa/Orisha, pelu abule eto ni Ijebu, ki eyi je ona isepilese 1 ati 2 | Focussing on inter-tribal-ising (internationalising or globalising) the Yoruba language and the Ifa/Orisha spiritual heritage, with administrative centre at Ijebu, as a means of attaining 1 and 2.
4) Nitori awon Yoruba ni ibalopo ni ede ati esin pelu awon eniyan niita ayika ilu-kolo. | Because the Yoruba have connections through language and active spiritual heritage with people beyond the borders of the colonial country.
The Yoruba diaspora includes a worldwide Afrikan diaspora whose spiritual heritage is rooted in Ifa/Orisha and we have a duty to protect that heritage and provide a home for its adherents. Unlike many other ethnic nationalities in Africa, Yoruba [populations or landmass (thanks SOD), language and spirituality] extends beyond any one colonial country. Yoruba is a global 'tribe' without a 'controlling' country,

I also suggest that achieving the Ayekan Afrika is a greater good than fragmentation of Yoruba Nigeria into ever smaller states within the existing country. As part of Nigeria, no Yoruba state can issue passports or visas, or implement a policy of muscular intervention in the Sudan, or support the dispossessed of hurricane Katrina, or call the UK or USA to order for disproportionate imprisonment of people of African heritage. We should be wary of crippled political 'independences' that cannot deliver socio-economic wealth.

The creation of 'Ijebu State' is to be considered in view of the above. Whether it is created or not, its people and the other current Yoruba states should also be aware of their greater connections and responsibilities towards Afrikans beyond the current Nigeria.