Oreolorun Awawu Omofoyeke Sunmonu Aleri aka Mama Iesa An Ode to Mama Ilesa of over One Hundred Years She was here before the highways, before the satellites and screens, before the world decided it knew everything — she already did. One hundred years of rising before dawn, of hands that stirred and soothed and built, of a back that bent but never broke, of a voice that held t...
Image credit Ayandeji Shots What joy fills the atmosphere at the first cry of a new born baby, what joy awaits them in the arms of sweet grandmothers like mine. Grandmother Oreolorun Awawu Omofoyeke Sunmonu Aleri , is an unmistakable rare jewel and a beaming light in the Adesoye family. A mother, grandmother and great grandmother and if God wills, great great grandmother. Long may you live my dear grandma. The wife of my great and industrious grandfather, Late Pa Kasumu Adesoye from the royal lineage town of Iresi in Osun State, Nigeria. A popular culture celebrates loved ones when they pass on but its only wise for me to celebrate and honour a matriarch who has rightfully etched her name in the grandma’s all time hall of fame (lols). A true queen that never wore a crown neither coveted one, contented with all she has received of the hands of G...