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/POEMS /OUR HOUSE IN AFRICA Our house in Africa  A mud walled house which sat  On surroundings large but neat  Her cap of old thatch  And a fence of bamboo. Our house in Africa  Her facade marked by chalk paint  Generous clay on entrance lobby  The family courtyard spread  And a front gate of bamboo. Our house in Africa  She overlooked the iroko tree  Who grew strong from the ages  His strong boughs far spread  And against perilous tempest. Our house in Africa  Overlooked a virgin forest  And the iroko's cultured root  Evergreen tree whose foliage smoked  From religious fires at his foot. Our house in Africa  In those dark days birds nested  Many coloured and speckled birds  On the revered iroko of our ancestors  Who clothed the iroko tree. Our house in Africa  Today birds hover about the forest  And her defiled remains in total disconnect  From the Gmelina trees that now s...

/Etsakor Proverbs ETSAKOR DIALECT: 1. Orda orde kpo lor ghu ye alimhi apfer na tser la. 2. Elimhi lor khi apfer ni mha ye. 3. Eme gbe alimhi oder vhi agbor, khor vha gbe nabi uku ewor. TRANSLATION: 1. Everyone dies unto their own ancestry. 2. Elimhi  - (The Spiritual Abode of the dead) is the family where we return. 3. The veil which separates earthly life and the spiritual abode of the dead is.       not as thick as a film of smoke. MEANING:   Through death, man returns to his origins. The ancestry of man called alimhi  in the Proverb, is an abode of spiritual beings, where it is believed that man was created; and there, he came from.   There, it is possible to recognize related, previously connected or familiar beings. There is the eventual return of the spirits of the dead. This Proverb describes the location of the spiritual abode to be within the earth; and among the living! The only veil of separation between the kingdom of the spirits of th...