The People, Lifestyle, and Beauty of My Hometown

I'll say I'm blessed to have come from two hometowns under the same local government but when I was opportune to visit and live in each of them were at different times and I learned that they are quite different in many ways. While I'd really love to share about my hometown from my dad's side, I do not have much memories of it.

That's because it's been about two decades since I last visited there but for the hometown I've visited quite often and know quite a lot about, it is my mum's hometown. Grandma lives there so I did visit her a lot when I was school as she always makes sure I don't lack garri while in scjool. So yeah, that's one of the richness there.

They are mostly farmers there and that means they farm almost everything they use over there. Before you'll see one person sitting around in a place, you'd have seen many people going to and fro their farms to get food for the day or items for the market days. Orogun is a very interesting place and it gets more amazing every time I visit.

I can still remember the first times I visited and how scared I was about a particular animal that is seen almost anywhere in the community, they say it's their gods of the land. I never came to terms with knowing that fact or even watching the animal pass by but I'll say it's one of the things that makes Orogun unique to other towns.

The Orogun people are Urhobo people and one of the things I'll say I am most proud of about our people is that they are hardworking, especially the women. It's a bit off that the women are mostly seen as the breadwinners because the men tend to be more lazy or waste time in drinking than do work and take care of family.

But it also makes it beautiful that women stand up for themselves even when men are failing or not helping. The community continues to grow because most of our women are so strong and independent, their upbringing made them that way. I like that but I also have issues with it. I think it's best to be that way than to lazy about.

My hometown also have good roads in most part of it, unlike some years back during my first visits. I heard an important person in the Government came out of the community so in his tenure, things changed for the community. It's since then, we've had good electricity there too. Not many communities can get such goodies.

But a lack that I believe will make the place better for everyone is that things are not as cheap there as it should be considering that they are selling what they farmed themselves. They are blessed with good soil and produces. I understand that it's hard to toil the soil so it makes sense to get gains for it but it shouldn't be same with the city.

Aside that, which still makes some ssnse, my hometown is a nice place and I'm proud that I am from there. I wish I could share about my dad's hometown too, hopefully, someday I'll visit there and learn as much as I want to when I do visit.