ALAAFIN AND 21ST CENTURY OLORIS

Kaabiesi (Ka bio o si), Iku baba yeye. Mo sun m’Oba nigba egbefa, mo jina s’Oba nigba egbeje o; eni ba r’Oba fin l’Oba npa o ! Toto Alaafin o.

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi and his four younger queens celebrated his 76th birthday recently in United Kingdom, and have been photographed as they went shopping in London.

Happy birthday to you Kaabiesi, we your children will celebrate your 100 years and more in good health and Ajinde ara. Ase.

Kaabiesi bami sir, we revere you as the custodian  of Yoruba culture and traditions, but the Oloris’ dressing are not promoting our culture in any way, at least they need to dress in nice Yoruba attires like ‘Ofi’, and decked their necks with lovely beads. Why putting on is tight trousers and Brazilians’ hair? Do they forget that they married to an Oba?

However, am not saying that the Oloris’ cannot dress in western ways if they choose to but whenever they are with Kabiesi, all dressing protocol must be follow in details. Happy vacation Kaabiesi.