TALES FROM TIMES BEFORE (EPISODE TWO)

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...“One thing is certain. We must not tolerate this abomination in our midst” a stout woman declared firmly, and they all agreed. Together, they called on Akinbo in his father’s house. “We demand that you remove yourself and your depravity from amongst

us. You and your household must leave this town!”

The hostility towards Akinbo and his mother was so bitter that he had no choice but to leave town. He went to set up house on his father’s farm, and he and his mother settled there. When everybody returned to their homes in town at the end of the day, Akinbo and his mother remained on their farm. They were so thoroughly ostracized that no one interacted with them when they went to their own farms daily. They only had dealings with the people in the town when they went to purchase supplies.

Months later, Akinbo’s mother was pregnant and she bore her son a son. Indeed, she went on to bear him three sons. Akinbo’s farm flourished, and he prospered.

When the townspeople learnt of Akinbo’s sons, and his property, many of them, particularly the young ones observed, “The farm of the man we all said had done what was forbidden is flourishing, and his mother is bearing him son after son! No misfortune has befallen him for doing what was said to be forbidden, instead, his life has taken a favorable turn!”

“Humn,” sighed the very old man,. “Eewo will avenge this abomination you’ll see. He will make an example of Akinbo yet.”

Eventually, Eewo returned from his journey. He made his way to the palace of the Oba. The king of the town and the townspeople followed him. “Whatever became of that person who married his mother?” he asked in his reedy voice.

“Nothing,” a number of people answered shrugging their shoulders.

“Actually, Akinbo is well, and is thriving!” a young man guffawed.

“His farm is flourishing!” added another young man.

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Eewo rubbed his receding chin with his skinny right hand, and then he demanded.

 “What punishment did you people mete out for him for doing this abominable thing?”

“We drove him out of town! We ostracized him completely!” claimed some people simultaneously.

“No one has visited him and his family since,” contended others.

“Is that all?” Eewo demanded, searching the faces of the elderly men and women.

“Well, what else can we do? At least driving him from our midst demonstrated clearly that he would not tolerate that kind of perversity here,” an elderly woman argued.

“Humn,” mused Eewo. “It is because you look over a responsibility that was not yours in the first place that things have turned out the way they now have. If a… To be continued on Tuesday

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