My Place of Green Pasture And Hospitality - Edunabon

This is the very first time I will be talking about my hometown here on Hive and I think the first time in this year as well if I'm not mistaken. Not about being proud of it or not but it has not really been a specific discussion about hometown but have been generally about my tribe as a Yorubarian.

I hailed from Ile-Ife in Osun state where every in-depth Yoruba individual believed that the sun rises from while it spreads to the rest of the world. A place where countless historical events happened and up till date, it serves as a strong pillar of the Yoruba land.

As mighty as Ile-ife is, there are so many towns and villages that makes up this great city and land of which my hometown is one of them and I hope that as I really try to explain this, I don't eventually get you confused or making you read this paragraph over and over again to understand.
My hometown is called Origbo-Meje and is located in the north part of Ile-Ife. I don't know how to translate that but the "meje" means 7 (seven), which indicates that it comprises of seven communities which are Ipetumodu (the headquarters), Mooro, Yakooyo, Asipa, Akinlalu, Ishope and of course my own hometown which is called Edunabon.

Edunabon is the second in position to the headquarters Ipetumodu because of our size in population to the extent that it has 2 political wards, and just like the main Ile-Ife, we have our own historical events as well and incidents that has made my hometown known at the national level.
Edunabon is a place where hospitality and accommodating people especially strangers is nothing but the easiest thing to do, and seeing people come from far or foreign lands back home to check up on their hometown is something that brings them joy.

My hometown is a very great and good place for farming where farming activities takes place at the highest peak for farm produce like cocoa, yam, palm kernel, palm oil, maize, corn and so on. I remember back then while I was still a kid and we would visit my grandparents for the festive period and also visit their farms, from Cocoa farm to okro farm, to banana plantation or where they make palm oil. It was a lovely experience that stayed with me till date.

The pounded plantain and cocoyam with lumped-like melon and vegetable soup we ate in the hut that night at the farm can't leave my memory ever. Although I was a bit scared at midnight cos we had to sleep over in the farm unlike now where bandits no longer allow farmers feel safe in their own lands anymore. Fresh farm produce which they eat there makes them live longer than the people in the city, I guess cos it's rare before you see someone below 50 declare dead unless it's an attack or crisis.

It's a town that connects to other great communities like Ede, Ile-Ife, Atakunmosa and many other places directly so that is the reason why you can't refer to it as a mini or rural place.

However, there is a key that spoils the teeth of the dog. As much as Edunabon is blessed naturally, Edunabon lacks social amenities to the highest order. It's just recently that an abandoned road that connect other communities was completed and commissioned, where other infrastructures are even nowhere to be found.

We only have primary and secondary schools but no higher institutions are founded there, let alone an industry even if it's a factory to at least standardized youth empowerment.
No standard and well structured health facility of the government where people can access free healthcare is found.

So with this, there's a limit or boundary to youths getting empowered or well educated if they wanna remain in their hometown except they move out and source for knowledge or livelihood or remain a farmer.
Even as a farmer, there are no modern tools or equipments to aid their farming to make it really worthwhile as a startup farmer except there are some land and farmlands inheritance of which they mind end up killing themselves on while trying to share.

Edunabon is such an amazing place among the towns in Ile-Ife in Osun state Nigeria and I know if all these things are sorted and given to Edunabon residents, both indigene and strangers, it will make Edunabon a more better place to live in or do business.

I'll be dropping my 🖊️ here on the Hive Learners community prompt

Thanks for reading through 🤗

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