CHAPTER 10
“I was born into Oje Agbede; that was my father’s Egungun. In my times school was important but was not what we sought at all cost. In our days the oracle told parents what their child would become even from birth.” Baba Lamidi told Yomi.
It was another visit to the Baba’s house, a November morning with the dry weather crawling in. The schools were on half-term holidays and Yomi had a few days free from school work.
“It was never like these days when you find so many young men and women wandering all over the streets complaining they do not have a job. From childhood, we knew what trade Ifa appointed us into and we only needed to work toward it. Being born into Oje and being the first son of my father, my role in life was already decided for me at birth. I was to take up the
