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PROWESS EASES THE BATTLE

Sep 15, 2024  |   4 min read

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PROWESS EASES THE BATTLE
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Audacity of a man to succeed twirls around the power of his mind and his exorbitant, dexterous ability in hustling.

It all began long ago. Now, it explods and spreads to many generous men and women of the cosmos. Akire's bravenes seems to have him soon reign supreme.

When his character seemed to take an upper hand among his agemates, a great persecution arose against the supremacy of the Aguu hill, in the Aluu chiefdom, which was followed by the emergence of the many moxie of individuals taking part in the struggles for leadership.

In the Aluu chiefdom, the men were stiffly racing, but all don't know for sure who would take up the lead. Even the incompetent ones with their hilarious quackery gimmicks offered themselves as contenders.

In fact, Akire wouldn't forget the regrets. The women could utter their native adage,"Pocu yeee,Ojuta yee,Aluu Ye!" Yelling desperately in quest for their freedom.

Now, as a benevolent and a talkative man, Akire had the agility to lead. He took over the authority of commanding the gathering and then he went over to commiserate with the rest of the family members of Aluu on their unfortunate circumstance that befelt their lineage.



In the lineage, the men begot many children and they have lived for many years in the land without any concrete plans for leadership succession.

Their hope wholly centred on the king that, he might in the near future beget an heir by his new queen, which is yet to be born in a couple of weeks from now. When they heard of this thing,they celebrated. But, some of them they felt horrors coming upon them. They were pissed off. Cut to the heart as they gnashed tightly their teeth."I know one day the spirit of our ancestors shall fall and dwell upon one of the chosen son of this chiefdom of Aluu,and he will be our leader. For it hasn't yet fallen upon one of us". Said,Opitekene. Then Akire answered, "Opitekene, please have a moment and pray that none of the things which you have spoken come upon me."

The next day, he planned what he called "a freedom walk" around the chiefdom. But at the back of his mind, he had arranged himself to go and pluck "yat lagwok kom." - herb to protect himself from any danger. He denied knowledge of this to other members of his chiefdom except only to his chosen lads whom he briefed before the journey began. In the tradition, it's an abomination to tell anyone about the secret of a given herb god showed you in a dream before you get it at hand. For him, he had chosen these young entourage to accompany him because of their historic lineage secrets of herbalists

As he journeyed with the two lads beside him, he led them and they came near Aguu hill, but on their way, light suddenly shone around him. It's believed to be the power of the ancestors reigning supreme. This forced him not to move an inch as he fell in the middle of the road with his belly oozing fumes of dust particles around him on the space. Immediately, he heard a voice saying, "Akire, Akire! Why are you hiding from me, your god, and leaving me behind?"

Then, Akire answered, "Who are you talking to me? Are you the father of the deities of this Aguu hill?"

The voice came, "I am the way to go to the hill of Aguu, and anything you want from this hill of Aguu belongs to me. And you will not lead to Aguu without me in you."

A huge ball of granite rock suddenly fell and blocked the road. Akire and the entourage had no options than to abide by what the spirit would tell them to do. From here, they said, "father of all the deities, what do you want him to do now?"

Then he said to them, "I command him to rise up and go to the hill and from there, he will be told what to do."

They had a belief that, this might be the jok of Aguu hill and immediately, the entourage began to sing, pleading to the hill to open for them the way;

"Goti, goti ban wa yoo!

Wun wucito Kanyi?

Wan wacito ka jako laliyo

Wun wutimo ning ning?

Wan wawiyo awiya

Wun owiyo ning ning?

Wan wawiyo ni wic wic."

The song sung by the entourage made the road opened by the mighty soul of Aguu hill.

The huge rock that extrudes and embeddes the middle of the road disappeared, and their eyes that were held captive with fear now succumb wide opened. Then, Akire rose from the ground, and he saw no powerful shaddow of soul's images and light again. His eyes were wide catching space. And here, he thought deep inside him and believed to himself that, indeed, there is power above everything on this earth.

In fact, in their minds, they knew, and it appears to them now as "he" own the hill of Aguu and the area beyond. He said, "I am giving you now the way and make sure you go, but bear in mind that you will all follow my instructions. He gave them twelve hours to go and do what is taking them up the hill and come back before the time exceeds six O'clock. Akire rose to normal and continued to lead them, and indeed, all goes well with them to and fro.

For when they returned, multitudes of men and women, youths and the children welcomed him with an absolute excitements and in a revered jovial mood and here, he applauds them for the huge gathering and the welcome joy that marred their faces and in the end heeds praises for the things spoken sometimes back by Opitekene after hearing from the brief story of what had happened to them on their way to the promised land of Aguu and besides, seeing miracles which he began to perform.

The young men who journeyed with him stood speechless, trembling, and astonished. The two boys were wondering what powers Akire would have got from the mighty Aguu!

Now, they approached a reknown fortunes teller named Aturuguza Lucibok to first tell on him what could have made him more wise than all the kinsmen in the Aluu chiefdom.

When he saw him, he falsefied them, That Akire is not having proper sight which indeed he has to put his hands to help. And he said to them, "for Akire's sight to be healed he must first accept him as his ancestral lord and if he has done so, then, he would speak to him and his sight will be back to normal". Here, for when they revealed the all things to kinsmen they felt guilt of the news and they put Aturuguza in the racket of the deadly gulliotines, rendering him useless in the eyes of Akire and to the podium of the kinsmen in Aluu chiefdom. All voices raised at once, "we don't want distortion of the hierarchies in Aluu chiefdom."

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Virupaksha Nanda

Sep 26, 2024

"Goti goti ban wa yoo" -- what's the meaning bro (with a smile)?

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