Adejumo Adewale

Abba's first love 👆Antimicrobial resistance steward☝️One health advocate👆Lover of the Word☝️football☝️arsenal inclined

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

Read my article titled 'sampling in Nigeria, a battle between myths and science'. Will love your feedback on it @odionikh @OluwatosinWots @Horlart_12 @DamilolaOwola17

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[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@olumuyiwaayo @oulawal Congratulation doc...more wins

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

Were koni gbọmọ sọ okunrin yii. You shall be preserve in the days of trouble.

To the pro isese, active and passive, do your own movie oo.

When some Nollywood guys acted Hannah, who complained. Glorify who you want. Give glory to who you want, Esu, Sango or other.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

AGBARA NLA - THR RETURN
THE PUSHBACKS - MY PERSPECTIVE

First of all, let us be clear, I would be seeing the movie as soon as it drops on the 1st of October. I saw the prequel in the 90s, I am even more anticipated to see the return now.

I am drawn to the nostalgic value the art represents and I stand in absolute awe of the Mount Zion Film Ministry’s enduring longevity. I know how herculean the task to sustain a brand is and if a brand; any brand at all, had thrived for 3 decades, such deserves our profound respects, our reservations notwithstanding.

But there are issues that have been raised over time about the contents from the Mount Zion Ministries by the proponents of Yoruba tradition, culture and values. The allegations whisper - and sometimes shout - that the ministry’s lens is deliberately tinted to demonize our revered ancestral creed while holding aloft the lantern of Western theology. And then, they recommend CANCELLATION. Cancel Mount Zion.

Well, I DISAGREE!

My disagreement is not with the substance of their grievance; perhaps there is an abundance of evidence to back their claims. However, I completely reject the gospel of CANCELLATION.

I am not a part of the screaming mob. I do not subscribe to cultural jungle justice. And most importantly, I fiercely refuse to wear the garment of a victim. I AM NOT A VICTIM.

A victim is one who always present himself as the weaker party. A victim is the one who perpetually craves pampering and who has lost all appetite to confidently defend itself. A victim has a defeatist mentality whose only response to challenges and confrontation is wailing and protest.

By adopting this posture, you do not drape the Great Yoruba Race in robes of glory. The Yoruba are lions; we are not victims.

To the Allegations:

You claim that Mount Zion Ministries deliberately drags Yoruba ancestral beliefs through the mud while elevating Western faith - just as it happened in the prequel of Agbara Nla, where a pastor, armed with the armor of Christ, subdued the fiercest exponents of our traditional worship.

Hello Brothers, Art is a liberalized entity and Mount Zion does not enjoy monopoly of its expressions.

Therefore, what binds your hands, as Yoruba creatives and fierce defenders of our ancestral heritage, from scripting an epic where Obatala or Ogun triumphs over the Christian deity? If you do not blow your own flute, others will use it as a stirrer. I refuse to be a victim.

Furthermore, when we look into the mirror of truth, we so-called adherents of Yoruba cultural ethos have dealt more crushing blows to our proud heritage than Mount Zion ever could. We have wounded our own legacy through poorly researched, hastily cooked, and badly delivered artistic creations.

Who wrote the scripts that elevated money rituals, human sacrifices, deadly spells, glory-snatching, and dark witchcraft into global conversations?

IT WAS US!

And when the night gets dark in these very movies, who do we cast to break the spell and neutralize the evil? A Christian priest or an Islamic cleric. The insect eating the vegetable resides right inside the leaf. That failure cannot be laid at Mount Zion’s doorstep.

Every faith on earth has its own dark history of radical extremes; our Orisa philosophy must never be painted as the sole custodian of ancient barbarism. Let history remind us that early in the Christian faith, innocent women were tied to wooden stakes and burned alive on the flimsy, shivering suspicions of witchcraft.

Was that not a spectacle of supreme cruelty? Was that not a more barbaric expression than human sacrifice? And even now, in the 21st Century, the Abrahamic faiths continue to contribute to wars and violence while the Orisa yet maintained their trademark peaceful disposition.

But it is not the duty of Mount Zion or any proponent of other religions for that matter to help you market your own virtues.

Look at religion through the cold lens of commerce...

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[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

Many of them don't know that if the academy graduates of some clubs do not leave, then we won't be having many players that we have today.
You want to use a player even if inferior, and when the team fails, it is the coach at fault.

[Next Generation Arsenal @scoutingindoors]

It’s funny isn’t it. I read things like this and think ‘What is supporting a club really about’ what do fans actually want from a coach, from a game, from a player.
Has the shine of the league win, the parade, the emirates parties all worn off.
Are we really that sad about losing an academy player or more excited about having something to be mad about(it’s been a while)

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

In all this chaos and wisdom of men....one thing I know, one thing I am sure of is

JESUS IS LORD and whatever we say do not reduce him...He is the same yesterday, today and till ♾️

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

But when you watch Lalude, Abija, Alapini, Daguro display wickedness with the Yoruba enchantment and ọfọ, you were not brainwashed?

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@TemmyDeeds Thank you for your time

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

But when you watch Lalude, Abija, Alapini, Daguro display wickedness with the Yoruba enchantment and ọfọ, you were not brainwashed?

[Bachelor of Idan @BachelorIdan]

We grew up brainwashed by religious propagandists like Mount Zion's Mike Bamiloye.

Their stupid movies have a serious negative impact on Yoruba tradition and culture as a whole.

They are still re-warming them after more than 3 decades.

It is the right time for the Yoruba traditionalists to start pushing out this sort of propaganda against the two exploitative and flawed religions, Christianity and Islam.

Let's see if they can take what they dish out.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@TommGodfather As far as I am concerned—Jesus is the way to the God/Father. If you desire to meet the same Father like me, then I would beseech you to give your life to Christ. However, if your desire is to serve Sango...you are Eniyan, meaning, you can choose.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@lollypeezle Please, what's the role of Alfa Akinleye in Koto'orun/kotoaye...honestly asking. A hero or villian of the movies

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@KehindeShoots @lollypeezle You said this as if you watch all their movies. I have watched where they used children to make charm...won fi won joogun telling us the power of ATR to do so. This is not about warriors it about babalawo, and power witchcraft

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@DiplomacyBalo Sure...be loud about every hypocrite. Don't let them rest because their ways is totally not d way of d Lord. If anyone do what's not rooted in Christ, such does not belong to us. So, when next a man is caught w human skull 4 rituals, d ATR should call dm out IF it isn't their way

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@DiplomacyBalo Good...but at the point when I adopt wickedness by enforcing my will against God's. I am not a Christian, because all means adopted by me to achieve that cannot be found in Christ. The world may still see me and call me a Christian but I have strayed tipẹ tipẹ. That's the diff.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@OurFavOnlineDoc His is beautiful...the smile , the voice. God bless that child and her family

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@DiplomacyBalo Do you believe that a so called Christian may be wicked in his or her dealings too. I pray for something time after time, even after I know that, that's not God's will for me. I "forcefully" get it. It is wickedness cos it contradicts God's will.
Thank you for being civil.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@Facades_x @olajimide This is the fruit of your belief. Always cursing, insulting...this is what @jaymike called darkness. May the light of Christ penetrates your heart.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@olajimide ATR mean African Traditional Religion.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@olajimide With all honesty, are people doing Nollywood ATR practitioners. If not, then, they should be guilty of the same thing you are supporting.
As in, is Lalude a babalowo real life? Is Iya Gbokan a witch? Kindly, let me know your answer.

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@DiplomacyBalo Even though I do not believe it was his witchcraft that made them to play draw.
At the point when it become wickedness is when you want it by all means. Cos you can pray to be victorious against your opponent, and still lose, but when you have to "force", I call that wickedness

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@SoftiLola Good of you if this makes you happy.

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@henry_odidi Not in all cases...I have watch where it was Alfa or Pastor that delivered those people. Why didn't we have uproar like this. And even if it's an Onisese that healed the person, who started it, who inflicted the incurable sickness, insanity at first, a pastor or Alfa?

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@AbiWealthola Nor were they tormented. Kai, we would be fine last last

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@BachelorIdan Some of you really do not understand what's called Christianity. The religion didn't even tell us to protect ourself per se. Since the time immemorial, we have been killed and in no time did I see our Lord defending/killing back. Infact, if Christ wasn't killed, we won't be here

[Adejumo Adewale @Eliaswal]

@TommGodfather See, I do not set anyone before me as example. No living human is my example to follow. I only focused on Christ. I can't, however, stop you from believing that they are the purest human.