Nigerian Month - National Poetry. ENJOY!

"When we were kids we used to play a game. We would sit down side by side backs against a wall with our legs stretched out. Then one of us would begin chanting/reciting a song/poem, touching every one’s legs sequentialy. Whenever the poem came to an end, the leg being touched had to be folded. This went on and on, the process repeated, until there was only one leg remaining unfolded.The last kid whose leg that was would be the winner. We called this game p’orogun ila (or something like that).I think this poem is in Ijesha, a dialect of Yoruba, and it went something like this:
P’orogun la, p’orogun ‘se (ese, as in foot)
p’orogun ajamu rere aki’tan ‘se.
Adudu kere ese yi na gboro,
Alakoro oje, oje lamu go go.
Lamu lamu pa koko,
lamu lamu pa koko
bi’i ka yi ko,
Abia mo, mini mini ka yi ko
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Unfortunately the author couldn't translate, (found the meaning too Gibberish for him), if you remember this poem - enlighten me what it means! just click the link below to hear how it's pronounced with Yoruba accent ! http://myweb.cableone.net/paulbee/webstuff.html And again Big Thanks to Mr."afarikorodo" !!

Nigerian Month - National Poetry. ENJOY!

AKUKU BI

Kaka kin bi Egbaa obun,
(Rather than have 200 slobs?)
Ma kuku bi okan soso Oga.
(I’d just have one top kid)
Ma fi yan araiye loju,
(I would parade him before the world)
Ma ri ohun fi gbe ‘ra ga.
(I would have something worth bragging about)

Se Okan soso Araba,
(As a single (Araba = ) Eagle)
Kii se egbe egb’erun osunsun.
(Is more than a match for a thousand Osusun( = a certain numerous tiny bird))
Omo to ja fafa kan soso,
(So One single well mannered (successful?) child)
Kii s’ogba igba irun bi omo.
(I can’t translate this one well at all)

Aku ku bi san se rada rada,
(Never having had a child is preferable ???)
Ka ku l’omode ko yeni.
(Dying in childhood is more fitting)
San ju k’a dagba toro je lo.
(Is better than growing old to beg for sustinance)


just click the link below to hear how it's pronounced on real yoruba language !
http://myweb.cableone.net/paulbee/akukubi.htm

Big Thanks to Mr."afarikorodo" !!