CHAPTER 8
Yomi finally finished reading Eegun Alare. It was a good story: the quest of Ojelade the hero, battling many obstacles to his eventual prize.
The story started with Oje Larinnaka ,a performing masquerade embarking on a journey in search of a positive change in fortune, leaving behind his pregnant wife. After nine years of waiting, the wife takes her son Ojelade and goes in search of her lost husband. Three years later, she returns home unsuccessful, tired and beaten.
The young son Ojelade, takes up his father’s mantle and begins to train as a performing masquerade. In a few more years, he is declared competent to practise his new profession. Again, like his father, Ojelade goes away in search of fame and fortune, together with his new wife, who is the daughter of his father’s
