Friday special : watch vedio - the panegyric of twins

The Yoruba tribe has the highest rate of twinbbirths in the world.
Igbo-Ora, a little town in Oyo state, has been nicknamed Twin capital of the World because of its unusually high rate of twins
that is put as high as 158 twins per 1000 births. In a video on YouTube presented by Titi (a white lady who speaks Yoruba), and which was centred on twin births in Igbo-Ora, one of the locals boasted that every family in the town has at least one twin! The following is the oriki for all we twins in the world. Enjoy!

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́ ará ìṣokún.

Ẹdúnjobí

Ọmọ ẹdun tíí ṣeré orí igi

Ọ́-bẹ́-kẹ́ṣé-bẹ́-kàṣà,

Ó fẹsẹ̀ méjèèjì bẹ sílé alákìísa;

Ó salákìísà donígba aṣọ.

Gbajúmọ̀ ọmọ tíí gbàkúnlẹ̀ ìyá,

Tíí gbàdọ̀bálẹ̀ lọ́wọ́ baba tó bí í lọ́mọ.

Wínrinwínrin lójú orogún

Ejìwọ̀rọ̀ lojú ìyá ẹ̀.

Tani o bi ibeji ko n'owo? 

All twins hail from Isokun.

A relative of monkeys you are

Hoping and jumping from a tree branch to the other

Jumping helter-skelter,you landed in a wretched man’s place

Turning around his misfortunes

A rare set of children that commands undue honour and respect from their parents

To your stepmother, you are an unwelcome sight

But to your mother, you are both emperors of two empires!

Wouldn’t you love to be parents to twins ? 

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́ okin

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́ ti mo bi, ti mo jo

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́ ti mo bi, ti mo yó 

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́  ara isokun

Omó édun nsere lori igi 

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́ wo ile olowo ko ló 

O wo ile olola ko ló bé 

Ile alakisá lo ló 

Ẹ̀jìrẹ́ só alakisá di alasó 

O só otosi di olowo

Bi Taiwo ti nló ni iwaju

Bééni, Kéhinde ntó lehin    

Taiwo ni omode, Kehinde ni ebgon

Taiwo ni a ran ni sé 

Pe ki o ló tó aiye wò 

Bi aiye dara, bi ko dara

O tó aiye wò. Aiye dun bi oyin   

Taiwo, Kehinde, ni mo ki

Eji woró ni oju iya ré 

O de ile oba térin-térin

Jé ki nri jé, ki nri mu

Charming twins

Twins that I gave birth, that resembles me

Twins that I gave birth, that make me happy

Twins inhabitants of Isokun

Children of the monkey who plays on the top of the trees