The eulogies almost revealed the ancestry of lagbaja the masquerade, but he warned the praiser, no one should lift the veil off a masquerade This is beautiful
Display of African culture and Music... I love the attire of Lagbaja. It is always simple but complex...if you look beyond the attire, you’ll see one of the best designers clothe of our time. I wonder who designs for him...but I am not fooled. I think he does it himself and it is beautiful.
So many things were said & sang in praise of Yoruba culture but the major line/chorus can be interpreted as “beat the drum for them, Lagbaja beat the drum for them so they will know your fathers can dance well or your father owns original dancing steps”
BATA IS D NAME. ITS A YORUBA ANCIENT INVENTION DRUM BY THE YORUBA PEOPLE DURING THE REIGN OF "(ALAAFIN SANGO) IN OLD OYO EMPIRE. SANGO IS THE YORUBA god OF THUNDER, THE SON OF ORANMIYAN THE CONQUEROR OF OLD (IGODOMIGODO LAND), ORANMIYAN RENAMED IT TO (ILE IBINU) MEANING (THE LAND OF VEXATION) AND LATER CORRUPTED BY THE PEOLE THERE BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT YORUBA'S AND LATER THE STUPID english PEOPLE NOW KNOWN AS (BENIN CITY) INSIDE THE PRESENT DAY NIGERIA.
Mik Gee No the hell it isn’t! Get out of here with that utter nonsense. Why are you people so enamored of Jewish/Hebrew mythology. We’re tens if thousands of years older than them. Sad!
