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Makinde Adeniyi

Biography: Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi is a Prince, Physician (by training), Poet, and Author. He has published 2 poetry anthologies titled "Night Marauders and Other Poems," published by Carrot Publishers in 2022, and "Echoes from the Savannah," published by Amazon in 2024. He is currently working on another poetry anthology. He writes poems about social issues, culture, nature, love, and medicine. Some of his poems are Afrocentric in nature with a tilt towards the Yoruba culture and tradition.

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Sunday 24 November 2024

Let's Celebrate

Let's Celebrate

Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi

Feel the gángan1

Talking to the roots

Open the doors of your ears

And the windows of your eyes

Raise the decibel

Let the waists move without hinges

Bring the calabash

Let the ògùrọ̀2 flow like a river

Invite the masquerades

Àwọn ará ọ̀run kìnkin3

Let the gods be in tune with man

For what is man

If not a replica of the gods

Here today, gone tomorrow

Let the ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀4 accentuate

The taste of the talking drums

Let the body be clothed in dust

And the spirit drunk with music

Let the ìlẹ̀kẹ̀ ìdí5 and idẹ6 flavour the day

And ìrùkẹ̀rẹ̀7 fan the flames of festivity

It’s time to celebrate!

Footnotes:

1. Gángan – a type of African drum also known as talking drum.

2. Ògùrọ̀ – palm wine; an alcoholic beverage made from the sap of species of palm trees.

‘3. Àwọn ará ọ̀run kìnkin' – the spirit beings

4. Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀ – a musical instrument made of gourd and beads.

5. Ìlẹ̀kẹ̀ ìdí – waist beads; an ornament or a piece of jewellery worn on the waist by African women.

6. Idẹ - ornament made of metal, worn on the wrist, the ankle, or other parts of the body.

7. Ìrùkẹ̀rẹ̀ – (also called fly whisks) an object among the Yoruba, made of horsetail or ram hair, worn by priests, royalty or dancers.

From "Echoes from the Savannah"© Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi, 2024.

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