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The Ancestors of the Clan

let’s remember the ancestors the ancestors of the clan – the infamous and un-kingly kings celebrate their inglorious libations all over my land, my clan – but, my clansmen let not the clan forget the famous foundations of the nri kingdom – let’s remember the ancestors the ancestors of the clan - let the name of agaja trudo be on the marbles of dahomey finest artists for ’tis nothing infamous for mansa musa to be versed upon the new urns of the mali kingdom – let mai ali ghaji be greeted with the finest literary trumpeters! let osie tutu sit seat-to-seat with nelson mandela – my clansmen new are our horns today let not the old horns of africa be cut off in the zest of the artists for my ancestors shall not be mere spectators, mere winds flying the history of my clan!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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