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One thing people don’t seem to understand is that if you fail to document and preserve your own history, someone else may eventually write it for you. And their interpretation could become what future generations accept as fact.
A claim is published today, quoted by another writer tomorrow, repeated in documentaries and academic publications years later, and before you know it, people are treating it as established history.
That’s how easily historical evidence, historical interpretation and historical certainty become confused.
I’m beginning to understand why some people invest so heavily in shaping media narratives. They understand that what is recorded, preserved and repeatedly circulated today can influence how history is told tomorrow.
This is why documenting our history matters. Preserving oral accounts, recording testimonies, keeping archives and backing historical claims with evidence that future generations can independently examine.
An old publication isn’t automatically the truth, just as an undocumented history isn’t automatically false.
The danger isn’t simply that someone else might tell your story. It’s that their version may become the only surviving account, leaving future generations with little evidence to challenge it.
Sometimes, whoever controls the records controls how the past is remembered.
Alhaji Bashir, leave Grok alone, let me give you the real gist of what went down on this thread from start to finish.
It all started when one of our eminent scholars in Yorubaland, Dr. Shaykh Imran Eleha, stated firmly that the Yoruba people do not originally own the Ifa divination system. Instead of countering him with history, people started crashing out and getting emotional.
That was when I stepped into the ring. You know A.Y.O is always for the truth, no matter how unpopular it is. I told them to stop the noise and bring pure historical facts.
Right away, the usual suspects who have zero intellectual capacity started cursing the hell out of me. They turned the replies into a market square of insults because the truth touched their nerves.
In fact, there is one of them called Femi, a guy already known on this app for spewing cheap propaganda. For someone who claims to defend and worship Ifa, Femi could not even write five lines of coherent analysis on the history or math of the very thing he worships!
It showed everyone watching that the guy is a proper blockhead with an empty tank. I had to tell Femi and his gang of abusers that this is an intellectual table, and when it is time for an abuse contest, we will inform them.
For those who tried to argue, I laid out the real history and separated the mathematical hardware from the cultural software:
1) Nobody said Arabs wrote Yoruba proverbs, poems, or local folklore (Ese Ifa). That software belongs to Yorubaland.
2) What was imported is the 16-figure binary grid (the 4-line Odu matrix paired into 256 combinations and marked in powder on a board). That mathematical container came from North African and Middle Eastern sand geomancy (ʿIlm al-Raml) down through the Nupe trade corridor.
I dropped Reverend Samuel Johnson’s The History of the Yorubas (pages 32 to 33), where Oyo's own royal historians recorded that Setilu, a blind Nupe man who initially practiced divination with Muslims, brought the system down into Yorubaland and settled in Ile-Ife long before it ever entered the Oyo palace.
Not only that, I backed it up with Al-Shawahid (corroborating witnesses): Sheikh Adam Abdullah Al-Ilori, Bernard Maupoil (1943), Prof. Louis Brenner, Prof. Wim van Binsbergen, and dated 12th-century Arabic manuscripts such as Al-Zanati and Ibn Mahfuf.
Then the comedy started from the few who tried to sound smart:
1) The Oyo vs. Ota confusion: One guy ran to page 158 of Samuel Johnson to shout that Alaafin Onigbogi’s mother brought Ifa from Ota around 1500 CE, while hiding pages 32 and 33 of the same book where Johnson already explained how Setilu the Nupe man brought it to Ile-Ife in the first place!
2) Babatee and the University of Chicago own-goal: I have to give kudos to Babatee. Unlike Femi who only knows how to bark and curse, Babatee at least tried to go and look for academic research, even though he missed badly and could not comprehend what he pasted.
He came chest-beating with a link to a 2024 University of Chicago Press paper, claiming "the world's top scholars" carbon-dated Odu Ifa to 500 CE. I opened his link and dropped a screenshot of page 249 on his head.
It turned out to be a short essay by one lecturer from NOUN (Emmanuel Ofuasia) who explicitly wrote that Sophie Oluwole's 500 BCE date (Babatee did not even know the difference between BCE and CE!) is unscientific speculation, and admitted his own 1100 CE date is just an approximation based on general town walls in Ile-Ife!
Worse still, Babatee quoted a verse saying "Our Ifa became Muslim", not realizing it comes from Odù Òtúrà Méjì, the Odu of the Muslims that records how the Babalawo copied the turban and ways of the Muslim clerics (Alufaa)!
Once I posted that screenshot, he tried to play another Maradona style like their forefathers do, twisting my screenshot to claim the first paragraph proved him right.
Spot on, Salako. But there’s something I’m curious about. How do you distinguish someone reacting because an uncomfortable truth threatens their self-concept from someone who simply disagrees with what’s being said?
If every angry reaction is interpreted as proof that the criticism hit home, aren’t we creating a situation where the person making the criticism can never be wrong? 🤔
This is just an assumption, and I don’t agree with it. Davido has publicly suspended Israel before, yet Israel didn’t turn against him.
Even if Israel eventually betrays him, I wouldn’t be shocked. Betrayal is part of life.
I wouldn’t say he’s too superficial to understand my point. Salako is intelligent, but I think his personal bias sometimes influences how he judges people.
Hi @MentallyAwareNg, please, this person has openly expressed suicidal thoughts, and I’m concerned about his safety. Could your team urgently reach out to him and help him access the appropriate mental health support?
To be honest, I find all the concerns you raised logically weak and unconvincing.
Do not Undermine Democracy
I have received with shock the news of an order by the Federal High Court in Abuja nullifying the emergence of the Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and all the actions he has taken. This is unsettling and surprising.
I do not challenge the ruling of the court. The court of law is constituted to determine disputes according to the law. My concern is that three months before a general election, it is in the public interest to have certainty. It is not good to have too many uncertainties about candidates and parties a few weeks before a presidential election. This instability is obviously engineered by the ruling party, just as they have done against me in the Labour Party and continue to do so to close down civic space for a robust campaign. It is also from the same rulebook that manufactures violence against us in our campaigns.
One mark of democracy is that at all times, it is voters and not courts that choose leaders. I trust in the judiciary. As a public officer, I have shown deep respect for the judiciary. I appeal that we protect the integrity of democracy by not undermining the free and fair choice of candidates.
The sustenance of democracy in Nigeria, in the midst of encroaching military rule in West Africa, should strengthen our resolve to protect opposition politics and not stamp out opposition parties. It is because of the importance of opposition to the sustenance of democracy that I have always promised that, as President, I will take a special interest in ensuring opposition parties are stable and thriving, and that opposition candidates are not persecuted out of electoral contests.
This is a time to strengthen our democracy by allowing the opposition to thrive.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Your assumption that Atiku’s absence could benefit Obi is interesting, and I can see why you think so, considering Atiku’s political influence in the North.
But I think you’re overlooking two possibilities.
First, Tinubu’s ability to negotiate. If Atiku eventually finds himself off the ballot, what’s stopping Tinubu from reaching an agreement with him?
Second, the NE. I wouldn’t assume that voters who supported Atiku would automatically move to Obi. Tinubu won Borno and came second in four other NE states in 2023. Some of those voters might prefer Tinubu to Obi.
So I don’t think Atiku’s absence would automatically favour Obi. His political influence could become valuable to either side, depending on who he decides to work with.
ADC's judgement is not a good news for PBAT. Hear me out!
The 2027 Presidential Election is supposed to be a 3 horse race- PBAT, Atiku and Obi. An election that has the 3 of them contesting for the same position will always favour PBAT, even if conducted a million times. With the recent judgement of the Federal High Court voiding Atiku's candidacy, it will now become a contest between PBAT and Obi.
If it eventually becomes a 2horse race, then the possibility of PBAT winning is slim; because if Atiku is not on the ballot, his camp can easily work and campaign for Obi, but on terms that I am not sure Obi's camp will accept. Anything just to get PBAT out of office.
So the best thing out there is to either have the 3 of them on the ballot, with Atiku's team accelerating the hearing of the appeal before the election, which I strongly doubt is possible, but looking at the sensitivity of the matter, it might not be impossible.
Dont go yet, 2027 just becomes more interesting.
You’re questioning my comprehension when you don’t even understand why I used “perhaps.” The irony. 😂
Apart from Olamide, Bella Shmurda is another artist whose songs I can listen to repeatedly without getting tired.
Yeah, none of us is completely free of bias, but at least we should try to be fair when judging others.