In wishing you a Christmas of unsupprassing joy i share some nostalgia you may recognise...
'Christmas eve was always interesting with fireworks on display and fired in all directions. We were obliged to visit the Church for nativity plays and a late night service. The next morning we always attended the customary Christmas Day service at St Peter’s Anglican Church. The Church had now been transformed from what it was at our last visit.
It was grander, bigger and better and the floors had now been smoothened out with proper pews added. Everyone dressed in his or her new clothes called ‘aso odun’ sewn and bought specially for the Christmas occasion. There were lots of singing and dancing in the Church as we sang lustily in Yoruba language the chorus over and over again to the melody of drums:
“Odun ti a bi olugbala araye. Kresimesi odun de, odun alayo.
Ko san gbogbo wa. Kan so gbogbo wa sire loruko Jesu …”
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