Ebi Alupaida returns to Egbe Onisin Eledumare

Many Diasporan Alkebu-lanese are rejoicing at the return of ebi Alupaida to Egbe Onisin Eledumare.

In the early 2000 period Egbe Onisin Eledumare began a series of return to our primordial Motherland ALKEBU-LAN.

This series of returns is ongoing and is called Sacred Journey to Alkebu-lan.

In a then Revolutionary move the Oluwo Eledumare Olakela Massetungi introduced a concept of covenanting with old lineages and afford them them the opportunity to be generated and birthed through the spiritual womb Egbe Onisin Eledumare.

These birthing periods were fixed at the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice periods.

This Summer Solstice 2023 the Alupaida lineage has returned.

Join in the RECLAIM OF OUR CULTURAL AND TRADITIONALLY NAMES

Photos:

1. Courtesy Omidiran Ogunlade and shows then Lester Ogunbowale Alupaida Osouna dressed in Red an original member of Alupaida lineage at Egbe Onisin Eledumare.
2. Courtesy Osuntola Omitosin Onafowokan and portrays the recent incoming ebi Alupaida.

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2021 MESSAGE TO THE NATION AND PEOPLE OF REPUBLIC TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Once again another calendar year has rolled by.

As we contemplate on the past and create adjusted paradigms of social engagement for our future; there are many candid comments I would like to present here in this year’s message.

The past year has met us in plandemic conditions , and I must applaud the people of our Nation for our general steadfastness in the face of a global transgression of the right and sovereignty of the individual within a democracy.

The period of the plandemic have seen a planetary reversion to behaviours that were previously accepted in colonial and precolonial moments in our history.

One would have thought that after the two “world wars”, that there was a progress on the planet towards egalitarianism and removal of all forms of discrimination in our society.

With the announcement of a virus affecting citizens of the globe, a scenario developed where one narrative of what this “threat” is/was. This was accompanied by an attitude of there is no other remedy than the one being presented by an elite and minority group of persons to be implemented by heads of States even without the consent and compliance of planetary citizens.

This attitude even seem to have arrived in our own Two Lands where, the elected persons whose interest it is to manage the people with the Peoples’consent, are now demanding of the people compliance with foreign dictated agendas.

I must say that I was disappointed by our State leader when he suggested because somethings were done in particulars ways before that that justifies doing what is wrong/or perceived as wrong by the masses of the people.

We inherited racial discrimination in this country, we inherited religious intolerance in this country. Should we therefore return to religious intolerance and racial discrimination because it was here before?

I have written previously, that the inclination of our elected government for mandatory vaccination has no basis if the basis is that it was done in the past.

WE WERE SOLD INTO SLAVERY IN THE PAST.

Should we suffer the same today.

Adjustments to the contrived economic manipulation by a minority on the world’s population is taking place even as I write.

In this adjustment process millions of worldwide citizens are exercising their right to sovereignty as individuals and as the electorate.

In previous writings I have advanced that as a Nation we should have the Right of Recall where a political Party elected by the people fails to carry us in the direction that we hired them and voted them in for. This now seems even more relevant now.

In small island polities even larger than ours foreign operatives have gone into “independent” territories and assassinated political leaders: so that foreign agendas may take control of the destinies of these polities. Will this happen here to?

As we celebrate/commemorate our flag Independence let us recall that our struggles to arrive at the common and current moment have been as a result of the sacrifices of the masse of our people .

Let us wherever we are organize ourselves for honourable living.

As August 31st arrives, let us in our various ways engage in constructive action that would allow our children to be FREE.

There was a past moment when parents were denied the RIGHT of correcting our own children;when this became convenient to the State.

We have seen the consequence of surrender of our parental prerogative.

Let us exercise our right now.

CONCLUDING DAY FOR ODUN IJESU ati IWUDE OGUN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEh5naYnjZk

E ku odun!
Egbe Onisin Eledumare have hosted successfully thus far Odun Ijesu ati Iwude Ogun
We have joined with our supporters across the globe using both ancient and modern aides to facilitate the meetings on this plane as we fulfilled our Traditional rites.
Today we meditate og IGBAGBO ati IMO as we conclude our festivals

EMANCIPATION MESSAGE 2018 by Oloye Ogundare Ife Olakela Massetungi

It is  with  great humility that I greet y National community  this morning

Eledumare – Supreme Love Intelligence and Authority have willed that we live.

We give thanks for thus continued opportunity to impact positively on our community and country.

We thank all of our illustrious and elevated Ancestors for their gracious and continued support as we chart our path forward.

There have been and continue to be many who make selfless support to our great and noble cause of redemption of our minds, bodies, souls and spirit as we emancipate our selves and our communities out of the rot that we have found our selves and our country in.

I would like to thank the entire team at Emancipation Support Committee that have worked thanklessly on many occasions to create and manage the platform for the Emancipation Day Street Procession

I would also love to thank all the persons and organizations who have worked hard; either singularly  or in conjunction with others in the building of platforms for the commemoration and celebration of this most significant moment of our lives as a community and a Nation.

The many community organizations that have either independently  or collaboratively worked in creating the many platforms for the hosting and staging of Emancipation Day events must be thanked and applauded for their efforts over the years.

The photographers and audio visual documentors should also be recognized for their most crucial and important role played in the documentation of the development of yet another healing ritual created by and for the people.

Though there is much more room for improvement of our festival let us cognize what we have collectively created and further nourish and nurture it so it could yield for us it’s bountifulness of  blessings.

As we celebrate this year let us remember those who were with us last year and have now crossed over to the Great Beyond.

Let us also thank the many youths and young children who have participated over the many years and who still continue to participate and show enthusiasm and passion in their participation.

This year I would also like to thank the many entrepreneurs who continue to place their confidence in themselves and their intended market sector.

Thanks must also go to the many Orisa devotees who continue to preserve and advance the traditions of our Ancestors.

Thanks to the many drummers, chanters, dancers, and percussionists who help to sustain the spirit and march rhythm for the procession and accompaniment for the many performing artistes.

To our dignitaries that joined us from abroad and particularly those that joined us from the continent of Alkebu-lan we give our thanks.

To both Sun and Rain we say thanks.

May we all live to celebrate again this time next year.

10 DAYS TO ASE ODUN OLOKUN 2017

As we prepare  for ASE ODUN OLOKUN  2017 THERE  ARE TEN  MORE DAYS TO GO.

The New Moon  has been sighted by Elders of EGBE ONISIN ELEDUMARE.

ANOTHER  CYCLE  HAS BEGUN.

The Autumnal Equinox is TODAY affording us an opportunity  to re-evaluate  and  balance our lives, as Nature herself  sets example  by manifesting  balance and equality between hours of  SUNLIGHT and hours  of NIGHT.

Soon the select few will have journey through the Darkness to Come forth  by DAY and by LIGHT.

By western astrological  customs we  are moving into LIBRA where there is BALANCE.

May we in our  own  engagements  arrive at BALANCE.

EMANCIPATION DAY MESSAGE 2017 – Oloye Orawale Oranfe Ife

Oludari Agbaiye of Egbe Onisin Eledumare

Another  year has rolled by.

Africans  worldwide  still continue  to  struggle  for  significant improvement in out lives.

Interference  by  external  forces and  by internal counterproductive forces continue to plague our  struggles.

Wheresoever we  are  we are constantly  engaged in  battle.

Is there hope?

There is hope.

As  we  engage yet another year of U.N. designated International  Decade   for People of African  Descent there seems to be little State response to ensure that Africans  in this country  have  “national cooperation  in relation to the full enjoyment of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights by people of African descent, and their full and equal participation in all aspects of society.”

The result  and consequence of this  has been  increased  crime and violence in our communities as the dispossessed  and  disadvantaged  citizens of African  descent  seek  to rectify this  situation.

Even  where  citizens utilise  legal options  such  as trade union action to receive their  well earned benefits to wealth that they helped to  create,the State and its relevant  agencies have  frustrated these legitimate efforts in favor of big business,State   and foreign  enterprises.

As  a direct consequence of this oppression is on the rise.

In our region there  are  attempts by capitalist/imperialist interests to plunge the region into political instability and internecine  war and  dispute.

How  can  we  counter  these divisive  and  disruptive tactics of those who do not wish  to see us prosper and enjoy the benefits of our contributions to our societies and world at large.

WE MUST FIGHT BACK.

WE MUST ORGANIZE TOTALLY AND EFFECTIVELY.

WE MUST SUPPORT OUR OWN.

WE MUST  ESTABLISH OUR OWN INSTITUTIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY EDUCATION  AIMED AT FREEDOM  OF OUR MINDS,BODIES, SOULS AND SPIRITS.

WE MUST RETURN  TO OUR ANCIENT WELL TRIED INSTITUTIONS  AND PRACTICES OF COOPERATIVE AND COLLABORATIVE ECONOMICS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES.

WE MUST JOIN AND FINANCIALLY SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ALREADY EXIST TO SERVE  OUR NEEDS.

WE MUST BUILD NEW ORGANIZATIONS THAT  WILL COMPLIMENT THOSE ALREADY  WORKING  SO THAT  WE  MAY MORE  QUICKLY ACHIEVE OUR OBJECTIVE.

WE MUST ORGANIZE AND STAY ORGANIZE.

WE MUST DEFEND OUR RIGHT TOBE FREE.

There are perhaps  several other legitimate  actions that  can  and should  be taken.

It is time that we stop complaining and start doing something.Where  we are disorganized or not organized WE SHOULD ORGANIZE.

As we enter another year in which our government should begin  to ENSURE that persons of African Descent are equally  given opportunities of building independent  institutions via State funds, we should all demand that this happens.

Any political party existing or not yet existing to receive our support should meet our demands.

As we celebrate let us honour  our Ancestors.

As we celebrate let us keep the image of FREEDOM-Total and unconditional in our minds.

When  we gather this time  next year let us  report to ourselves our accomplishments of this year’s  objectives.

I pray that all of  us celebrating this year will  do so with peace, with  dignity and with the royal comportment with which our Ancestors  carried ourselves.

I pray that there shall be no violence whatsoever manifested on our sacred day  of coming together in UNITY.

May there be no deaths,interruptions of our celebrations or anything untoward whatsoever as we celebrate.

I thank our Ancestors.I thank the Ancestors of the First Nations Peoples.

In conclusion I greet the entire Nation  of Republic Trinidad and Tobago: Let every creed and Race  have its equal place.

 

 

WORDS OF OLOYE ORAWALE ORANFE TO THE NATION OF REPUBLIC TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 2017

Contemplating the coming future

Praises to all intelligences and energies that have sustained our planet and our lives.

We are now completing one gregorian year cycle and opening the gates for yet another cycle of planetary life.

Earth and the many  political  entities on this planet are in  disarray.

The peoples of many Nations are demanding JUSTICE and equality of opportunity to enjoy life and live comfortable on this planet.

The many are fed up with the  agendas of the few who  continue to trample upon the RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.

Tough all of this is present,there is hope.The people are not lying down and bowing to the oppressive and unjust laws that they are experiencing.

This malaise is also here in our own  society.One government has exited the halls of governance and has been  replaced by another. Yet the situation worsens. Those who labour do not hold the reins nor the reign.

What will we like to leave as a legacy for our children and our children’s children?

As we enter this “new” cycle.I pray that it is love, equality and justice for all that  we would all love to experience in this  beloved land of ours.

Where do we  start?

At the beginning.

Resolve the issues of INVASION AND OCCUPATION,OF SLAVERY AND INDENTURE and then there shall be peace.

This decade – 2015- 2024 has been proclaimed by the United Nations  as: International Decade for People of African Descent. This decade is supposed to bring us  recognition, justice and development. Is it? What are the provisions being made by our government and our society at large to ensure that these goals are attained.

A PEOPLE WITHOUT GRATITUDE PERISHES.

I have sounded the WORD, time and time  again.

All citizens of our country, let us raise our voices to ensure that the monies and riches that this  country has been blessed with  be utilised EFFECTIVELY, to correct the WRONGS/INJUSTICES of the Colonial Era.

There is urgent need to deal with the issue of RESTORATION of the RIGHTS of the First Nations/Indigenous  People that CRISTOBAL COLON – Christopher Columbus met here. Let  put in place immediately the mechanisms and social structures that would allow for this to be implemented IN THIS DECADE.

THERE IS URGENT NEED TO ENSURE THAT THE ISSUES OF REPARATIONS TO OUR AFRICAN POPULATIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND AMERICAS -NORTH AND SOUTH BE ADDRESSED IMMEDIATELY.

Since 2013 at the 34th Regular Meeting of CARICOM held in Chaguramas Republic Trinidad & Tobago CARICOM States agreed to seek “REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY AND THE GENOCIDE OF THE NATIVE  PEOPLES” of the Caribbean. Since the  several Caribbean territories have formed National Reparations Committees with a view to ensuring that that  decision made in Republic Trinidad& Tobago become MANIFEST.

The time is now to take affirmative and positive action in our regions. Governments who would not implement  serious action  to manifest this agreement should either step down from office  or be voted out by the people in each geopolity where no action to make this  a reality.

To better act we must be informed. Do follow the links attached here to learn more  about the International Decade for People of African Descent.

In concluding I ask for ALL AFRICAN ORGANIZATIONS AND GROUPS IN OUR COUNTRY TO MOVE BEYOND POSTURING AND TRULY COME TOGETHER FOR POSITIVE ACTION.THE TIME IS NOW.

2015 in review

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IJUBA AT EGBE ONISIN ELEDUMARE THIS SUNDAY

Egbe Onisin Eledumare follows several cycles simultaneously as we attempt to keep in Cosmic Alignment, through multiple actions in multiple spheres of our lives.

One such action on our part is the salutation of the New Moon, as we engage our journeys from where we are to where we are intended to be and destined to be.

The Ijuba gives us an opportunity to collectively engage our aspirations in an atmosphere conducive to amplifying our prayers, petitions and praises of the divine and supernatural.

Our next Ijuba is this Sunday.

Date : Sunday 22nd.February, 2015

Time: 2.00 p.m.

Venue :  International Headquarters E.O.E.

12 First Street, Sparrow Drive, Simeon Road,

Petit Valley.

All are welcome.

Protocols of entry are required.

Participants are expected to dress and attire themselves in manners that are appropriate to the sacredness of the event.

All participants are encouraged to bring votive items for ritual and offering.

Items include : gin, obi abata, obi gbanga, atare, efun, iyerosun, efun, fruits, alcoholic drinks and beverages, grains, fruits, ground provision, etc.

CARNIVAL 2015 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Trinidad & Tobago Carnival is more than just Calypso and Steel band.

There have been many arguments as to the origin of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival. Scholars like Isidore Ian Smart, Kimani Nehusi, Rawle Gibbons, Frances Henry , Gordon Rohler, Hollis Liverpool  and others have all addressed different positions on this origins issue. Even today’s featured artiste The Roaring Lion  – Rafael de Leon presented his perspective as to the origin of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival.

Whatever the origins of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival it is visibly evident that Africans then and now have impacted most dynamically on the phenomena called Trinidad & Tobago Carnival.

2015 Carnival is going to be a phenomenal Carnival. There were threats of Ebola, that  was seeking to postpone the Carnival. Chicken V has not yet left outr environment, National Elections, all will impact on the output for this year’s Carnival.

The musical genres associated with Carnival are no longer restricted to calypso but involves a number of other genres.

This though is not new, for even some of our  original traditional characters utilised peculiar genres of musical rendition associated with their characters and portrayals.

So as we draw closer to Carnival 2015, let us HONOUR OUR ANCESTORS. Let us embrace the opportunity to RE- SANCTIFY THE CARNIVAL. Let us accept the African influence on this Carnival. LET US KEEP IT SACRED.

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