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Posted by: Benjamin Onuorah
“Much of what is theorized as Marxism is already in Ifa,” Baba D8 told me. D8—“Dẹ̀jọ̀,” short for his full name, Ọládẹ̀jọ Okediji—was my father.
As an undergraduate at the University of Ife, whenever I was excited by something new I had learned, I would keep it in my left hand until the weekend, when I went home to collect my stipend and relate everything to my father.
But when Dr. Makinde, the philosophy professor, gave a talk about Marx and Engels and their explanation of capitalism, I was so energized that I did not wait until the weekend.
I ran straight home after the lecture to tell him about the most fascinating theories of social organization and economics.
I found him, as usual, by his typewriter at home, alone, pounding the keys. He would be writing a story, poem, play, or just rhetoric, a bottle of beer by his side.
I can’t handle alcohol. It spoils my mood. I developed a dislike for it quite early. At about age four, I saw my father drinking his beer jẹ́jẹ́—gently—and I begged him for a drink.
He poured it into a cup and offered me a sip.
I loved the bubbly golden foam of cold Star Lager!
Then I tasted it.
It was so bitter that the moment my tongue came in contact with it, the bitterness ran through my entire system and I couldn’t swallow it.
“Don’t spit it out,” my father said. “You begged for it. You can’t waste my beer.”
That was the last day I craved beer.
I concluded nobody in their right mind should go near it.
But my father drank it like it wasn’t bitter, even smacking his lips.
In the evening, my mother would join him, but she drank a small bottle of Guinness ...
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