Mere Anarchy Is Let Loose

nnam, where's that tree at the centre of the clan? o, what happened to the people's iroko? where're my people's hope? the voice of my clan the famous tongue that came like the griot of my niger and stood firm, astute, echoing the drums of my masters the ancestors, my ancients – nnam, did you say the sacred tree’s fallen? what mysteries in our times what miseries are coming upon the once famed clan – did oke nmadu, the great man go with the drum of the clan? aru eme-e, evil has come mere anarchy’s let loose upon the clan – let the ancients remember their clan!