Alaafin Owoade: Thy Bata Drum Is Sounding Too Loudly (2)

Alaafin Owoade: Thy bata drum is sounding too loudly (2)

With three horizontal lines on each side of his mulatto cheeks complementing the three vertical lines on his forehead, the abaja tribal marks beautifying the face of Adejuyigbe Adefunmi were not sculp...

Alaafin Owoade: Thy Bata Drum Is Sounding Too Loudly (2) - Swift Reporters

By Tunde Odesola With three horizontal lines on each side of his mulatto cheeks complementing the three vertical lines on his forehead, the abaja tribal marks beautifying the face of Adejuyigbe Adefunmi were not sculpted in the heart of Yorubaland, they were incised in the United States of America, when the prince was eight days old. His father, Oba Efuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I, who founded Oyotunji, an African village near Sheldon, Bea…