Welcome to Ìwó, the ancient Yoruba land where the parrot sings in paradox the poetry of truth and treachery. The parrot is not a treacherous bird. For the Yoruba, the parrot is a sacred bird of historic symbolism, bearing on its head the feathers of truth, trampling underfoot the evil of treachery. Abomination! Even though they domesticate it, the Yoruba don’t kill the highly revered bird, whose prized tail feathers they use in ritual performance. In Ìwó and many other Yoruba towns, the parrot is sentineled at home…
Oluwo and the glorification of ignorance (1), by Tunde Odesola
