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[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Yoruba: Olorun Is Not God, and Esu is Not Satan

Before colonialism, you were either Oyo, Egba, Ondo, Awori, Owu, Ekiti, Ijebu and so on.

It was the British, who, in search of an ethnic identity for the Omo Oduduwa, took the derogatory Fufulde word for the Olukumi and mispronounced it as Yoruba with the help of Ajayi Crowther. That word was what his Fulani captors called him after raiding him from Osogun.

The Fulanis themselves may have learnt that word from the Malians, who used it earlier. Even the word Hausa is actually a Songhai word meaning Southerner.

The actual word for God in the Edekiri Olukumi language (the real name of what is wrongly called the Yoruba language) is not Olorun, as widely believed.

The word for the Omnipotent God is Oritse. Oritse is a word that shows you how spiritually developed the Omoluabi are (the actual name of the Yoruba people-the language is Edekiri, the people are Olukumi or Lukumi, and when you fulfil the ethos of the race, you become an Omoluabi or Omo-ti-Olu-Iwa-bi). Not all Olukumi will be Omoluabi.

Ori means head. For example, you can say ge ori mi, or g’ori mi, which means shave my head. That is where the name of the palace slave, gorimapa (Ge ori mo apa) in the now rested Village Headmaster TV series came from.

Tse means to create or to do. For instance, tse b’ayi meaning do it like this or create it like this. We Itsekiri use tse, but the Olukumi closer to Lagos and Oyo use șe or she.

The word Oritse is a compound word comprising of Ori-meaning Head, and Tse, meaning Create. Thus, Oritse means Head Creator.

His children are referred to as Orisa or Orisha.

So, in pure Edekiri language, there is only One Oritse and many Orisas.

The word Olorun comes from the older Edekiri word Olofin-Orun. It means Lord of the heavens. It is actually a title for Oritse. In modern Yoruba, Olofin-Orun is shortened to Olorun.

One thing I learnt in Cuba is that Èṣù, or Echú as they pronounce it, is actually not satan. Cuban and Brazilian Lukumi people (the word is pronounced Lukumi in Cuba and Brazil, with the o silent) left Nigeria before Ajayi Crowther corrupted that word. They were not affected by the corruption. Èṣù is actually an Òrìṣà (a god or deity). But he is not satan himself.

Interestingly, the Lukumi language is taught in schools in Cuba, and Ifa worship (known there as Santeria, although there are other things included, not just Ifa) is very widespread and done openly. In Florida, Oyibo (White European) babalawo exists. If you search for me on YouTube, you will see a video I did where I went to the Ojubo of an Oyinbo Babalawo in Daytona, Florida. Èṣù is one of the Òrìṣà of Santería.

When Ajayi Crowther was translating the Bible, he could not find a suitable word for satan, and he took one of the deities in Ifa worship, Èṣù, and turned him into satan.

While it is hard to translate satan into Yoruba, because there is no such concept, the nearest being to satan is not Èṣù. Even the word Èṣù is not complete. In Cuba, the full name is Èṣù-Ẹlẹ́gbára, sometimes shortened to Ẹlẹ́gbá, or Echú Eleguá, as the Cubans call it. In Brazil, the deity is sometimes known as Exu. It was in Cuba that I was educated about the fact that the place in Lagos called Ojuelegba, is actually Ojubo Ẹlẹ́gbá, meaning altar, or shrine of Ẹlẹ́gbá, or more accurately, a portal from which the deity enters and exits the spiritual realm to enter the physical realm. And we in Nigeria are blissfully unaware of this!

And the thing is that the word Èṣù refers to (and I know I will annoy a lot of Christians with this truth) more or less a messenger of God (Oritse Olódùmarè or Elódùmarè in the Yoruba pantheon of gods, as opposed to Olorun, which as I said earlier is rather a vague honorific).

There are more than one Èṣù. Each Èṣù is a messenger of Olódùmarè for a specific purpose.

For example, you have Èṣù Odara, which some say is a different messenger from Èṣù-Ẹlẹ́gbára.

Reno Omokri

[Jibade Olajoku @therealjibade]

@Kemiolunloyo Dr Kemi, I'm hearing asiwaju got poisoned? Please update us

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

Have Sex, Entertainment, and Cruise Become Our National Character?

True story: I take brain-enhancing supplements. And I wanted to market them in Nigeria because they help me think deeply. I mentioned this to a friend who owns malls across Nigeria. He told me not to waste my time. He said if I want to make money in Nigeria, I should sell sexual enhancement. 

It made me sad, but can I say he was lying? I asked some other people, and they all said the same thing to me differently. 

And then I began to think deeply about this. Do we, as a society, value pleasure over treasure? And is that why we are almost always under financial pressure? We are multiplying our population without multiplying our remuneration. And until we reverse this, we will not fulfil our potential.

I still wanted to investigate this matter. My mind is analytical. Until I have empirical data, I am not sure to accept a premise.

So I thought to myself, what can I investigate or invigilate to either lend or take away credence from these assertions about our contemporary values as a people?

So, I decided to investigate the biggest YouTube channels in European countries and African nations.

Loads of Nigerians are doing skits. It's probably one of the biggest things online for Nigerians. We are inundated with entertainment and cruise. But you hardly see Nigerians doing 'How To' videos. How to start a business. How to get a scholarship. How to build a drone. How to start a cucumber farm. Our passion is to be entertained.

The biggest YouTube channel in Sweden is PewDiePie, with 111 million subscribers. It is about using humour to teach gaming, investments such as NFTs, and new digital technology. In Germany, it is Kurzgesagt, with 22 million subscribers. It is about science and focuses on education. In France, it is Squeezie, with 18.7 million subscribers. Squeezie is basically a French version of PewDiePie. 

In contrast, in Nigeria, the biggest YouTube channel is Mark Angel Comedy, and the next top five are comedians, rappers or singers. 

In Ghana, the biggest channel is Sarkodie’s. He is a Ghanaian rapper. In South Africa, it is Trevor Noah, the comedian. In Ethiopia, it is Hope Music, a music group.

Next, I investigated countries with the most significant traffic on a particular p*rn-graphic website called Pornhub. And lo and behold, Nigeria topped their visitor traffic.

I found this hard to accept and reconcile with our outward appearance of religiosity. Nigeria is perhaps one of the most religious nations on Earth. 

The most important job in Nigeria today is not being president. The Director General of the National Orientation Agency has the most vital job in Nigeria, because Nigerians need a change of attitude.

We need to be reoriented towards patriotism and wholesomeness.

Nigerians delight in running down Nigeria on social media and even try to outdo each other on who can do it better. And it is not just young Generation Z. Elders do it. Clerics too. Supposed statesmen engage in it.

Recently, a Russian woman who now lives in Nigeria said she loves Nigeria because "it is just a cruise country."

Let me translate. She admires Nigeria because we are an unserious country, with unserious people, who do not take important matters seriously. That was an insult.

We must move towards being a country focused on growth and productivity, not a country of natural complainers, with one of the lowest tax-to-GDP rates on Earth, yet want our government to do for us what governments in nations where they pay taxes do for their citizens, while we all sit down and are entertained and use whatever money we can find to buy imported goods then blame our government when our currency refuses to rise.

Reno Omokri

#TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.

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The goal is not to compete with others but to compete with myself. I aim to be better than my previous self.
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