User:Lasogba Aro
My name is Peju Adeitan I am a teacher and a school administrator. This is my page "Lasogba Aro". I am a direct descendant of Lasogba Ajadi Aro the unsung founder of Igboora a town in Oyo state Nigeria which is designated as ; the twins headquaters of the world.
Lasogba Aro descendants are the custodians of the
"KUSENDI" dance and the annual Oro festival celebrated in Igboora. The Oro festival is a seven daylong event which is forbidden to women.
My uncle Stephen Gbadebo Balogun is currently the 38th Aro of Igboora. He sits on the stool of our progenitor 'Lasogba Ajadi Aro' the first Aro of Igboora. Lasogba's siblings include 'Lajorun' who settled in the Igboora metropolis when Lasogba moved to Idofin in the south.
Lasogba Ajadi is said to have migrated from Oyo "Oro" the one time headquaters of the Yoruba Kingdom and home of the Alaafins before Afonja moved the headquaters to present day Oyo town.
Today, 1gboora has grown into a cosmopolitan town with modern features while retaining her traditional and historic identity. Christianity and Islam has long crept into the town and currently we have a huge population of adherents of these two world religion peacefully living with each other in many families.
Today, Igboora host the annual world 'twins festival' the largest gathering of twins in the world and is home to many schools including a Polythechnic. Cashew and cassava are well grown crops in this agrarian community and Lafun or white cassava flour remains a stable food of the people. Other food crops include maize, pepper and water melon which displaced the agelong 'egusi' or gourd melon.
Lasogba descendants are known as "OMO EJIWERE OJO WERE" meaning child of the rain drizzle this is the beginning of our praise name. We also call ourselves "ARO LOLORO' meaning; Aro is the wealthy one.
Indeed Aro descendants are wealthy in culture and history. From the Oro cult, Kusendi dance, the drums of Lasogba to the traditional burial place of the 'aros' we hold unto history and mysteries. .....................