Ikoro Iyineleda
3 min readJan 6, 2022

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Ibadan,

Thou art not known as an ancient city for no reason.

Because thou hast done this,

Cursed art thou and all that is the Yorubas into becoming the Yorupe that will have each and absolutely every one of all its men and its women and its children use all that is morning and afternoon and evening and night to heap sand upon the bodies of all its fathers and its mothers and its daughters and its sons with the words,

"Vanity upon Vanity,
Ashes to Ashes,
Dust to Dust;"

that the foreigner then may say unto all those bodies,

"Cursed to Cursed."

Ibadan,

Thou art not for no reason known as an ancient city. And because thou hast done this, thou and that Ancient Serpent Jesus Damned is therefore Accursed -

Irretrievably, Irredeemably, and Irrevocably;

by The Very Word of my Creator, and of The LORD, and of GOD, and of The Omnipotent and The Omnipresent and The Omniscient and The Almighty and The Just and Right.

Thou will worship thy Ancient Serpent Jesus Damned. Thou will cry out unto him that is that Ancient Serpent Jesus Christ, The Most Evil, The Most Wicked, The Most Merciless, The Most Shameless, The Most Cunning, and The Most Lawless; and he will hear thee,

that thou and all that is The Church and Christianity may be then hungry,

that thou and all that is The Church and Christianity may be then thirsty,

that thou and all that is The Church and Christianity may be then put to Shame,

that thou and all that is The Church and Christianity may then cry out for pain of heart,

and that thou and all that is The Church and Christianity may then wail for anguish of spirit.

Thou will bury all thy men of grey hairs as though they lived all life as no more than foetuses. Thou will bury all thy kings in palaces known as Arifin. They all being thy kings will henceforth wear only Ade Asan. Their subjects will sleep with their Oloris — be the subject servant, slave, or soldier. Their sons and all thy children will be all bastards that thou all will never get to know. And all thy daughters and all thy mothers will be prostitutes that will beg with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth that their wares be patronised.

Thou all will look upon the bodies of all thy fathers and thy mothers and thy brothers and thy sisters swelling on the streets, and thy eyes will look on and fail with longing for them all the day, and it shall not be in the power of thy hand to prevent the stench and the abhorrence that will come about.

And thou will cry out unto all that is neither of the Yorubas, nor of Christianity, nor of The Church; and thou will wail with the words,

"Who did we offend?"

And there will be answer neither from All That Is The Heavens, nor of the earth, nor under the earth;

for thou art The Imbecile and The Lunatic and The Fool that trusts only in the abundance of his Cunning and seeks refuge only in his Might.

And thy Iniquity
shall not and will not
be expiated by sacrifice
or offering
for ever and for ever.

— Ikoro Iyineleda; 6th of January, 2022.

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Ikoro Iyineleda

writer, intellectual, chartered accountant - in view, consultant psychiatrist - in view, professor in Psychiatry - in the making.