PIANOS AND DRUMS
While scrolling through my WhatsApp contact status, I came across a tribute to the late Pa. Gabriel Okara( the poet of Pianos and Drums). Prior to when I first read this poem in Senior Secondary School, I had the mentality that anything that has to do with the African culture has an element of evilness in it. That is so crazy and laughable! When the first set of missionaries came to Africa, they knew they had a lot to struggle with in order for Africans to accept their religion.... So they opted for brainwashing which wasn't hard since the Africans already saw them as little gods because of their skin color and this still happens now. The question is " What makes the African culture bad and the white culture good?". In my first year in the University, I visited a shrine and I was telling a friend about how much I learnt, how good the priestess was to us,how Olukun is not a bad deity and how much I would love to go for the Osun/Oshogbo festival.