The name “Oranyan” or “Oranmiyan” was an eulogy. His real name is Odewale.
Òkanbi, Oduduwa’s son, is also an eulogy. OKÁN TÌ MÒ BÌ was transformed to Òkanbi, which means one and only child. He has a real name. Oduduwa himself has a meaningful name, but that is a story for another day.
Oladigbolu Jnr narrated.
The youngest and vibrant front-line contender to the vacant stool of Alaafin doesn’t sound like someone who is not ready for the task surrounding being an Alaafin. His historical facts about the Oyo Kingdom are marvelous for anyone who cares to know about Oyo, the position of Alaafin, and the Yoruba historical journey.
According to Prince Siyanbola Oladigbolu, the biological grandson of Oba Ladigbolu,
Enough of fabricated lies; it doesn’t befit Yoruba’s original identity.
I am audaciously saying that the word “Aafin” (palace) singularly belongs to Oyo. He further explained that Aafin was the official residence of Alaafin. No Yoruba oba can have ààfin as long as such a king isn’t an àlààfin. Àlààfin is an official powerhouse and a residence of only ikù baba-yeye.
Other parts of Yorubas have names for their palaces, such as Iga, Iyewu, Ile-Oba, and so on. But the word “Aafin” was coined by the Oyos. So, using it generally doesn’t mean it has no genesis. The Awuajale, imperial majesty, Oba Sikiru Adetona, said it long ago.
Alaafin Sango was the first to be saluted as Kààbiyesi in the whole Yoruba land. Kà màà bi si, kà màà ye si is what transformed to Kààbiyesi, literally meaning more prosperous and more healing. It has absolutely nothing to do with unquestionable but is a pure Oyo dialect. In fact, Oduduwa and his son (Odewale), popularly known as Oranmiyan or Oranyan, were never saluted as Kààbiyesi. So those saying the salutation of kings as Kààbiyesi means unanswerable don’t know what they are saying. Everyone is answerable to the Most High God. It is Oyo language, and no one can understand the dialect more than the owners.
This is not history from the Holy Qur’an or Holy Bible that any imam or pastor could say Jack Robinson against or deny. This is purely my personal history.
From Oduduwa’s era till date, it is only my dad who wasn’t an Alaafin due to his death some years back. From my grandfather, the late Alaafin Abubakar Siyanbola Oladigbolu, down to the reign of Oduduwa himself, they were all àlààfins. Whatever history I narrate is highly superb.
The same way Oduduwa was the first person to put on cotton-made clothes when he arrived in Ile-Ife, and when I say Ile-Ife, not the present-day Ife. In fact, there’s nothing called Ife. It’s called “Ufe.” People saw a very huge man sitting under an Akoko tree with his entourage; they started running away because they had never seen anyone with clothes before. People used to cover their bodies with leaflets during the dry season and leopard skin during the rainy season.
Those who claimed that Oduduwa met them in Ile-Ife didn’t lie, but he liberated them from a primitive lifestyle to the world of exposure and comfort. They were sitting on top of trees.
There has never been anything called “king” in today’s western part of Nigeria before the arrival of Oodua.
Oduduwa taught everyone you see today cloth-weaving (Aso Oke Hihun); there was none before his arrival. That’s why none of Oduduwa’s sons who became kings today dress like a Babalawo or Onisegun. They put on good clothes on every occasion, not a uniform. And you can’t predict their costumes, always looking modestly.
The tradition of putting Akoko leaflets on any new king or chieftaincy title holders was derived from the day Oduduwa entered Ife. He sat under an Akoko tree with his entourage, and that was when the ideology of Akoko leaflets was introduced to identify newly appointed kings/chiefs.
Let’s have the new Alaafin on time. The historical episodes are endless.
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