Aduralagba

Don’t Waste The Opportunity Òwe Yorùbá (Yorùbá Proverb) O wà ní ìfọnná, o kò fọnná; o wà ní ìfọnsu, o kò fọn isu; o wà ní ìfọnná fon isu, o ko fonna fon isu wa sile Each Woman holding a tuber of yam Translation You are at the site of taking coals of fire, you were unable to take a coal of fire; you are at the place where you could take tubers of yam, you cannot take a tuber of yam; you are at the place where you can take both, take a tuber of yam and a coal of fire but you were unable to take any of it home. Sliced Tuber of yam Application This is a proverb of rebuke. A person would be rebuked when she or he could not do what she or he has been opportune to do, but such a person is now looking unto people for assistance on what he or she has the opportunity and privilege of attaining or achieving then. In some instances, such people would even be threatening those people he or she is asking of assistance from them that they do not want to assist but forge

She Fled From Home A family of Romotey from one of the West African countries moved to America about 40 years ago. Romotey was a reverend gentleman who eventually got the necessary America papers that qualified him to become a citizen of the country as well as the rest members of his family. When his first child who happens to be a lady, Toluine, wanted to get married, this man and his wife decided to send to their kinsman at home to help them look for a responsible man in the country, from a Christian home and who is himself saved to be married to his daughter. The man contacted, Bablo, is also a pastor and on hearing that decided to put the matter into prayers. All the brothers he knew in his church and around those whom he thought were believers were put into prayers, but God did not sanction them. The man became disturbed. He thus involved other Christian people to join him in prayers so that a responsible male person would be found for his brother’s daughter to be married