Fathers, Come, Save Our Souls

an half-part of his face painted white as of spirits & the other side being human he steps into the esplanade isn't he the symbol of deity? didn't ikenga his father do same? didn't his foremost great fathers the fathers of the nine clans the nine clans by this river - oh, didn't they all do same in appeasement of this angry niger? they stood in aware of this flood-gate of the waters of the millennium - come, fathers, come, save our souls the souls of the renegades of the nine clans by this river - the floods have taken captive the boundlessness of your lands ah, niger, the weeping one!