See how they resisted colonialism. Even in atheism they still honour their ancestors. The “woke” Yorubas we have here are still calling their ancestors demonic in 2026. #FreeMyPeople
I pity the future of Yorubas in Nigeria. We’re losing these practices, and even actively calling it demonic. I’ve not seen any recent mainstream Yoruba wedding doing any of these.
Dear Layi Wasabi,
We have watched your skit. We have listened to the laughter it generated. And we are deeply, profoundly disappointed.
You took the name of Esu, a sacred and revered deity in Yoruba cosmology, and used it as a prop for cheap comedy. You turned a figure of cosmic order, justice, and moral balance into a punchline. That is not creativity. That is cultural sacrilege. That is an insult to every Yoruba person who holds their heritage sacred.
Let us be unequivocal. Esu is not Satan. He is not evil. He is not a figure of mockery. The false association of Esu with the devil is a colonial fabrication, a distortion that has been used for over 140 years to demonise Yoruba spirituality. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s translation of the Bible into Yoruba, while a monumental achievement in many respects, unfortunately cemented this error by equating Esu with Satan. This single act of mistranslation has caused immeasurable harm, leading generations of Yoruba people to misunderstand and fear a deity who is, in truth, a messenger of justice, a guardian of order, and a force for balance in the universe.
For decades, traditionalists, scholars, and cultural custodians have laboured tirelessly to correct this historical injustice. They have written books, given lectures, and engaged in public discourse to restore the true image of Esu. They have explained that Esu is not a demon but a fundamental spiritual entity who ensures that the cosmic scales remain balanced. They have reminded us that Esu is honoured, not feared; respected, not reviled.
And you, in a few seconds of content, have undone years of that work. You have reinforced a harmful stereotype. You have given new life to a colonial lie. You have told millions of Yoruba people that their faith is a joke, their deity a clown, their heritage a punchline.
You may not have intended harm. But intention does not erase impact. Ignorance is not an excuse. And the fact that you may not have known the full weight of what you were doing does not absolve you of responsibility.
This is not about censorship. This is about respect. You have the right to create. You have the right to express yourself. But you do not have the right to degrade our culture, mock our faith, or trivialise our heritage in the process.
We demand a public apology. We demand the removal of that skit. And we demand that you educate yourself before you speak on matters you do not understand.
Your platform is large. Your influence is real. Use it wisely. Because if you continue down this path, you will not only lose the respect of your people, you will lose your relevance.
Yoruba culture is not a prop. It is not a joke. It is our lifeblood. Honour it. Or stay away from it.
Now that Elon Musk is officially a trillionaire, people have predictably begun punching calculators and writing incredibly naive think pieces to estimate the exact fraction of his hoarded wealth needed to magically end global hunger and solve the desperately growing refugee crisis across the globe.
This is a mistake because no amount of money can ever end global hunger. This is strictly because global hunger is not a natural phenomenon or an accident of geography. It is purely artificial, systematically manufactured, violently enforced, and perfectly designed to serve the greedy, insatiable interests of the global capitalist network.
It is terrifyingly estimated that more than 10 million people are at risk of brutal starvation in Sudan, but absolutely nobody calculates how many unmarked helicopters are flown in daily to drop advanced weapons, supply rebel factions, fund proxy wars, and smuggle out precious minerals from Sudan. Nobody estimates the sheer number of illegal, heavily armed mining cartels deep in the Sudanese forests digging out their gold, uranium, lithium, and rare earth minerals just to sustain the glittering global tech empires. Nobody ever talks about how their supposedly sovereign leaders are carefully selected, heavily funded, forcefully installed, and militarily protected by ruthless Western powers.
Northern Nigeria has some of the most fertile, arable, and naturally blessed lands in the entire world, yet a disproportionate, staggering majority of the population is currently suffocating in multidimensional poverty. These people are absolutely not lazy. They proudly built towering groundnut pyramids, dominated the global cotton market, exported premium skins, sustained massive trans-Saharan trade routes, and fed the entire region long before the parasitic colonizers ever set foot on the pristine shores of Africa. No amount of Western charity aid will ever solve the current hunger crisis in Nigeria because it is artificially, deliberately manufactured to violently sack the indigenous population from their ancestral soil, steal their resources, and extract their raw wealth to power the glittering nuclear reactors, electric grids, defense systems, and luxury economies in Europe. It is the exact same playbook in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Congolese child is now completely covered in toxic cobalt dust, beaten with rifles, and forced into modern chattel slavery just so that the global tech empires can have cheap, uninterrupted access to the critical minerals required to build their ultra-modern microchips, electric batteries, defense drones, and sleek smartphones.
Now, this brutal analysis is only for a few select states in Africa. We can obviously, easily extend it to the entire Global South to further demonstrate that this so-called global hunger is a heavily weaponized tool, deliberately manufactured and sustained simply to pacify the psychotic greed of the global capitalists. As for the well-meaning, emotionally driven individuals who are blindly donating their hard-earned money in good conscience to these massive international organizations and flashy NGOs who are supposedly fighting to eradicate hunger: thank you for your charitable donations, but please urgently understand that these bloated organizations are absolutely not fighting hunger. In many horrific cases, they directly help smuggle the bullets, provide diplomatic cover, launder the conflict blood money, and deliver the guns to the exact same ruthless rebel groups that violently forced these innocent people off their fertile lands such as in Zaire in 1994 where humanitarian agencies actively fed, shielded, and effectively rearmed genocidal Hutu militias. In Haiti in 2010, these exact same international organizations and supposed UN peacekeepers recklessly poisoned the main rivers with untreated sewage water and directly caused a horrific cholera outbreak that resulted in the agonizing death of over 10,000 Haitians.
Look at the Central African Republic in 2014, where supposed international peacekeepers and foreign aid workers were violently implicated in the mass sexual abuse of starving, desperate children. Another painful example is the state of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021, where billions in Western humanitarian aid were shamelessly funneled directly into the deep pockets of corrupt regional warlords and terrorist proxies. All of these broken nations are direct, undeniable victims of this predatory, disaster-capitalism NGO complex.
So it is crucially important to loudly emphasize that these people cannot feed themselves not because they are inherently lazy, intellectually inferior, financially illiterate, or geographically cursed, but strictly because the violent economic conditions that have been artificially created, structurally engineered, and brutally enforced upon them make it mathematically impossible for anyone to truly function, thrive, or even survive. It is the exact same tragic story with other African nations. They can easily govern themselves, build state-of-the-art facilities, construct bullet trains, and fund massive social welfare programs, but the suffocating, neocolonial government systems violently imposed on them make it completely impossible for anyone to genuinely, independently govern a sovereign nation. Instead of wasting time doing useless mathematics to estimate the tiny fraction of a billionaire's hoarded wealth that would supposedly end global hunger, channel that fierce, righteous energy into genuinely fighting against global imperialism, neocolonialism, and Western financial terrorism. That money you are emotionally donating to the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and other bloated Western NGOs is absolutely never going into the pockets of the actual victims of these engineered disasters. It always ends up in the deep pockets of the globalists, who eventually use it to fund their massive administrative overheads, pay their expatriate salaries, and manufacture even more lucrative regional disasters. So instead, find a genuine, grassroots anti-imperialist movement, donate directly to them, and aggressively empower the oppressed people to physically kick out the imperialists, overthrow the comprador elites, and regain absolute control of their stolen farmlands, their gold mines, and their oil fields. This is exactly what will actually help those people, this is exactly what China ruthlessly did to secure its dignity, and this is the absolute only permanent solution.
Yoruba religion is about to rise on a very large scale its very evident......the Muslims knows this and that's why they've been attacking anything Yoruba culture unprovoked, whether they want or not what they're scared of is manifesting and they can't stop it.