Fulani Islamic Jihadists embarked on one of the most ambitious imperialistic adventures and brought an area reputed to be 1000 by 700 kilometers under their control with their sword of religion. They destroyed Oyo Ile, the capital city of Yoruba’s frontier empire, but were summarily defeated in Oshogbo.
While some will attribute the defeat to the brotherly love that brought together a greater Yoruba force, it is believed that Osun Sengese turned into a beautiful maiden that used tough love to charm and disarm the Fulanis before they were killed off by the army.
Whatever the case it was either the philosophical or spiritual essence of Osun that defeated one of greatest War effort ever experienced by Yorubaland till that point in time.
However this lesson of having Osun to rust and defeat Ogun was not enshrined in the Yoruba consciousness that had been flooded with millions of Ogun tools, Guns.
The 1520s Nupe invasion of Oyo that forced the royal court from Oyo Ile to Igboho had informed the use of Ogun essence to fight the Ogun Islamic imperialists. Oyo created the post of Aare Ona Kakanfo, military Chiefs, to counter the Northern Islamists, but were more focused against the slave raiding empires to the West, the Dahomey and Allada kingdoms. To vie for regional dominance, Oyo joined the arms race fueled by trans-Atlantic slave trade. Blood flowed on the Ogun theatres of kidnapping, anarchy and war.
The 1520s was the start of a new 250yr cycle of Oya, revolutionary change in global and institutional structures mired in religion and war. This was also experienced in Europe with the breakup of the 1000yr old Roman Catholic Church and Empire, as the British and French challenged papal authority and Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) dominance over freedom to raid, plunder, enslave and colonize Africa and the Americas.
The start of the next 250yr Oya revolutionary cycle in Babaluaiye, institutional structures, around 1770s that inspired George Washington’s breakaway of USA from Britain, also witnessed Bashorun Gaa, a military commander seize power from the longstanding Oduduwa dynasty in Oyo-Ile and sparked the beginning of the end of Oyo Empire. A few decades later, another military commander, Aare Afonja joined forces with the very Islamists, the foreign Ogun who the Oyo Ogun Aare Onakankanfo was established to defeat.
So much for Yorubas use of Ogun to fight Ogun. Yes, the Ogun Age started in Southern Nigeria before anywhere else in the world, from evidence in Lejja. But Ogun was put to productive use of agriculture and art, not its destructive tendencies adopted by the White horsemen that emerged from the Andronovo cave complex in Central Asian mountains.
It was Osun that was to stop Ogun from entering further into Yoruba hinterland. Instead of taking the Osun way after the 1840 Fulani defeat, Yorubas took the Ogun course and turned the guns on themselves to the point of near annihilation, in what turned out to be the longest Civil War in history.
In what should have been Osun brotherly love between Akitoye and Kosoko, they turned to Ogun tools and eventually turned to the strongest Ogun proponent, the British to takeover. Iyalode Tinubu and Efunsetan exchanged the fruits of Osun fertility, humans, for the tools of Ogun.
The British overwhelmed the war weary children of Osun/Ala on both sides of River Oya, and struck a deal with the Northern Islamic Ogun imperialists of indirect rule.
Colonization restricted the wide Yoruba philosophical and spiritual perception to that of Jehovah God of War, based on the philosophical foundations of Ogun and Osoosi.
Even though the Haitian Ogun revolution had led to the beginning of the end of slavery, throughout the world the Black Race fell into refined tools of Oguns forceful enterprise – sharecropping and colonization.
The crack in Black global prison walls started with coming together in the Black movement.
Notably, in London, the capital of the British empire, Black internationalists emerged with Ladipo Solanke standing up for Igbo cultural rights, creation of the West African Students Union signified a new era of brotherly love. A non-violent movement of resistance.
In Nigeria, with cultural, economic and sociopolitical colonization, a ray of hope was shone from Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly love, through Nnamidi Azikwe, who as a student had been involved in the global Black movement. On his return, Azikwe and Herbert Macaulay unified all political parties in love to start the NCNC. Ooni of Ife and Awolowo were to unify Yorubas.
Nigeria was to be born on October 1st 1960 with an Osun/Libra Sun and Shango/Uranus Moon. This was to be the tool for global Black ascendancy, enlightenment and justice predicted by astrologers and captured in the Apocalypse Horsemen in the Biblical book of Revelations chapter 4 to 6. The era of the third horseman with scales, the astrological sign of Osun/Libra. This is the 2000yr era of Shango.
However to fulfill Nigeria’s manifest destiny, Yorubas, Igbos and all other original Africans have to acknowledge and follow the tenets of Osun, their greatest weapon. Already the signs are there as the Osun cultural festival has received global acclaim. Music, Afrobeats, one of Osun traits has achieved global relevance without too much effort.
The creation of Nigeria as a child of Osun didn’t stop the Ogun machinations since within 6yrs, the army, the modern Ogun professionals took over and replaced the federal system with an autonomy inspired by Ogun excessive control. The initial resistance was the Biafra War but was defeated since it was based on questionable Ogun alliances.
The more successful resistance has been through a southern brotherly alliance, which has pushed the issue of restructuring to the front burner. However, the key to make it work and turn Nigeria into the third horseman that brings global prosperity and justice, is the true meaning of Apocalypse, hidden knowledge.
The hidden knowledge is the new genetic and cultural anthropological evidence showing our cultural linkages will cement the Osun unity with blood. It is only on this strong unbreakable platform that power can be wrestled from the internal and external Ogun-Osoosi imperialists, who will continue to spill Osun blood for Ogun bloody bounties.
When Osun reigns supreme in Nigeria and it is restructured to guarantee a federation of ethnic self-determined states, Nigeria will fulfil its manifest destiny. The revealed hidden knowledge would be extended outside Nigeria as all Niger-Kongo ethnolinguistic groups are freed all the way to South Africa and Gambia, resulting in a continentwide federation of self-determining ethnicities.
So, all the Osun and Shango opportunities are there to draw from if we can understand the full concept of Yoruba and Original African philosophical foundations.
