Shango didn't hang - (Oba Koso)

Once upon a time in the Yoruba kingdom, there was a powerful king called Shango, and as time went on, some of his army generals and counsellors became so powerful in the land that they constrained him to abduct.
The mutiny was so great and few loyal friends, counsellors and army wanted to fight to maintain him in power, but Shango knew that will blow into a bloody civil war, so he decided to step down. He was sent into exile by the new ruling council, so he took his loyal people with him and left the reign.
As they journeyed on, many other men left him one by one and returned to Oyo city. When he had only few of them left, for sadness, anguish and fear to continue alone the journey by himself, went aside from them, and decided to terminate the agony.

A Cruel King

Once upon a time, there was a cruel king that treated his people very badly for any little thing they did wrongly. Naturally, he was not liked by the villagers and for many years, the people lived in fear of him.
If someone did any little thing wrongly, he would make the person to be flogged in public, but one day, something strange happened. A very hungry young man mistakenly plucked an apple from the king's garden, and the king saw him in action. So he asked the hungry young man to be brought before him so he could give him an exemplary punishment for stealing the king's fruit.
The king preferred to see the matured fruits to fall down and rotten rather than to give them out to the poor.
When the young man was brought before the king, the villagers had thought that the king would just flog them, and let him go, but they were wrong!
The king decided to behead the young man with a sharp sword.
When the villagers knew about that, they came in hundreds to plead with the king to spare the man, but the king would not yield to their begging.
So the king decided to do the head cutting personally, but when he did that, the head instead of it rolling to the ground, the cut head jumped onto the king's right arm, and it stocked there. 
He tried to shake the head off, but it won't fall, so the cruel king had to live with with it, and each time he tried to take food or drink to his mouth, the cut head would snap it from his hand and eat it.
The king didn't know what to do, for he was very hungry. That continued for many months with the head impeding the king from eating and drinking.  He became lean and sick until he died for hunger,
      

 The End


          Yoruba Proverbs

• There’s no king as God.
• Man proposes, God disposes.  
• There’s nothing hidden to God.