Within the remix of concocted and convoluted myths in Yoruboid cosmogony, OGUN is a mysterious figurine with multi-dimensional capabilities. He erupted as Yoruboid Pantheon with seven lives. He’s known for his scientific understanding of the underpinning technologies behind warfare, hunting, music, drama, blacksmithing, road construction, and designs & modelling. Beyond Ogun’s spiritualism; he understood spiritual economics and state ideation and cultural sociation. He initiated his protegees into healing from the etu ibon. He introduced into the society the efficacy of swearing or vowing with his technological manufactures. No wonder, he was deified. On the one hand, OGUN used the technology…
Author: Sesan Johnson
Without trying to remind us of Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilisation”, it’s apt to say within the remix of the current political trajectories in Nigeria, different cultures and civilisations are continually clashing. The other day when I wrote “Externalities, Migrations and Manufacturing Nigeria: Atiku and His Cameroonian Descent”; one of my thorns of pains is the inimical role cultural or tribal identity is playing in our politics as magnified by some of the events and discourses that characterised the 2019 General Elections. Precipitated by pre-colonial conditions, complicated by colonial imperatives and encumbered by current realities, Nigeria’s politics of culture is…
