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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: Alimhi, aimhi obor ( ogor obor ); lor le rer se orai. TRANSLATION: The alimhi deity climbs a tree with the left hand. MEANING: This Proverb is a warning against false worship. It warns against the vanity in such an exercise, since they will be disappointed at judgement; which is often a miscarriage of judgement. LIFE APPLICATION:   This Proverb is rich in allusions. It shows that even in the dark ages, there was always light, through the knowledge about the worship of the True God. Here, in  Africa  and other parts of the world, paganism manifested in many societies; in the form of atheism, animism, spiritualism and many other types of idolatry practices.   The word alimhi  as it is used in this context; refers to the idolatry worship of a deified ancestral spirits. This type of spiritualism is false worship. 'The Tree' referred to, in the Proverb, means Judgement. And 'climbing the tree means adjudication or the dispensation o...