Shameless Yoruba Obas
By Tunde Odesola Wear a crown on a pig, clad it in the starchiest agbada, and sheathe its feet in Gucci shoes, it’s still a pig, not a king. More than a thousand years after Oduwuwa ruled Ile-Ife in the 12th Century, and his scions expanded the kingdom to Dahomey and beyond, a taboo of impunity has descended on Yoruba […]
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