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Obasanjo Teaches His Grandson How To Properly Prostrate While Greeting (Photos, Video)

Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has been captured teaching his grandson how to properly prostrate while making an attempt at greeting him, IGBERETV reports.

The energetic former president of Nigeria can be seen remonstrating at the manner at which his grandson prostrated while greeting him as he corrected him by demanding that he lie completely as a sign of respect for elders.

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To prostrate to greet your elders isn't a sign of humility but a respect to your culture which says you must do so.
So many men/women will prostrate to greet you and end up making love secretly with your wife or husband.

Yorubas sabi respect elders well well.

It's only in Yorubaland a conductor will be calling you Sir and still be insulting you.

In the end na him own Yoruba demon go plenty pass

His grandson must be wondering what brought him there to greet at the first place

Good!! Culture must be respected.

Zonefree:
Yorubas sabi respect elders well well.

It's only in Yorubaland a conductor will be calling you Sir and still be insulting you.

Is only Tinubu that doesn't respect the elders.

At his age he is still wants to be president when he is supposed to be in an old Peoples house and be taken care of.

Totilopussylick:


Is only Tinubu that doesn't respect the elders.

At his age he is still wants to be president when he is supposed to be in an old Peoples house and be taken care of.

Eleyi

Emilokan

Good , that is why we respect our elders in Yoruba land, we don't wake them up with side tackles like a particular tribe that have parental deficiency, you see them insulting and cussing .

Totilopussylick:


Is only Tinubu that doesn't respect the elders.

At his age he is still wants to be president when he is supposed to be in an old Peoples house and be taken care of.

Tinubu is not a true Yoruba man. Iragbiji is a town added to make up Yorubaland.

A man that is supposed to be in retirement playing with his great grandchildren is running helter-skelter because he is hellbent on destroying Nigeria!
All pun intended
Shame no dey for Iragbiji ni?

This man no de use tradition play at all

Yea,
this is right too,he should equally teach him to be obedient, it will fetch him goodies a lot in life

PointZerom:


To prostrate to greet your elders isn't a sign of humility but a respect to your culture which says you must do so.
So many men/women will prostrate to greet you and end up making love secretly with your wife or husband.

It is a sign of humility. I suggest you open a dictionary to check the meaning of the word
It is exactly that ; a sign of humility and a communication of reverence and or deference.
Making love secretly to your wife has nothing to do with humility or its lack but you speak from the wealth of your mind. If you are Yoruba you would understand that the action has superficial and deeper meanings

Smiling when you greet people is a communication of pleasantry or pleasantness it does not mean you are happy.
Long before humans developed speech we were communicating with body language and dobale is communication in Yoruba culture

aribisala0:

It is a sign of humility. I suggest you open a dictionary to check the meaning of the word
It is exactly that ; a sign of humility and a communication of reverence and or deference.
Making love secretly to your wife has nothing to do with humility or its lack but you speak from the wealth of your mind. If you are Yoruba you would understand that the action has superficial and deeper meanings

Smiling when you greet people is a communication of pleasantry or pleasantness it does not mean you are happy.
Long before humans developed speech we were communicating with body language and dobale is communication in Yoruba culture

You didn't understand the angle I am coming from.

PointZerom:


You didn't understand the angle I am coming from.

Actually I do but you need to improve your communication skills

The Balogun of Owu at his best.

aribisala0:
Actually I do but you need to improve your communication skills

In as much as it is puting food on my table, there's nothing to improve.

PointZerom:


In as much as it is puting food on my table, there's nothing to improve.

Well no one here is looking for food on Nairaland so that ego defense does not work.
The point is in Yorubaland dobale is a sign of humility. You and your table are your personal issues

aribisala0:
Well no one here is looking for food on Nairaland so that ego defense does not work.
The point is in Yorubaland dobale is a sign of humility. You and your table are your personal issues

The joke is on you.

You just have to love Yoruba culture. Everything is rooted in RESPECT for elders, and the elders try as best they can to inculcate that behaviour on the young ones.

No doubt "westernisation" amongst the so-called "woke" generation seems to be eroding some part of that, they still largely keep the tradition alive.

Even Anthony Joshua with all his exposure still dey dobale for elders.

PointZerom:


The joke is on you.

There is no joke bro.
In Yoruba land dobale is serious business. It is a Ritual of humility. You do not know and I corrected you not just for yourself but for others reading the thread.

It is a very important ritual in marriage , religion and even in the coronation of kings. A king traditionally in some places would perform a dobale for every single person he encountered during a set period never to dobale again after coronation

So when you say it is not a sign of humility you are displaying ignorance. That is the ONLY purpose of idobale
It has no other function

omenka:
You just have to live Yoruba culture. Everything is rooted in RESPECT for elders, and the elders try as best they can to inculcate that behaviour on the young ones.

No doubt "westernisation" amongst the so-called "woke" generation seems to be eroding some part of that, they still largely keep the tradition alive.

Even Anthony Joshua with all his exposure still dey dobale for elders.

everybody dey bow for elders
we do that here in Onitsha.
as onitsha person I don't shake my elders with one hand.
so respect for elders is everywhere it has nothing to do about tribe.
no dey famzy Yorubas.
hahahahaha

After doing that
grand dad: hope it's understood
boy : hell no

Ok

Na like this Tinubu sef suppose dey live and spend his retirement days but e no wan gree.

His grandkids and great grandkids needs him more than we Nigerians.

Culturally appropriate.

This would have been tinubu but he doesn't want to listen to anybody.

Useless old goat!

NwaMamaIwota:
everybody dey bow for elders
we do that here in Onitsha.
as onitsha person I don't shake my elders with one hand.
so respect for elders is everywhere it has nothing to do about tribe.
no dey famzy Yorubas.
hahahahaha

I thought they do sliding tackle in Onitcha