“Agha Ojadili”
(The Great Achiever)
Dance steps reverberate in the square
We celebrate a feasting festival
A special festival of achievement
Albeit of a silent kind
Animated bodies writhe in rhythm
To ecstatic drumbeats and “udu”
The “oja”, reeling out praise names
Of none other than the achiever’s
Failure it says, is orphaned
But success, a dozen kinsmen
Several toes tip and push
To behold “Ojadili”, who...
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