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    Abiyamo: Motherhood Incarnate
    Abiyamo: Motherhood Incarnate
    Abiyamo: Motherhood Incarnate
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    Abiyamo: Motherhood Incarnate

    By Wale Owoeye

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    ABIYAMO: MOTHERHOOD INCARNATE is a monograph about Yoruba tradition of motherhood, detailing its evolutionary phases from childhood to adulthood when a woman becomes betrothed to become a mother.

    The book spotlights the culture of Abiyamo to the world, expressing the shades, nuances and spiritual overtones of the travails of pregnancy, Ojo Ikunle, Abiye and postpartum roles a mother plays in the molding of a child and maintenance of the society.

    The book is written by Wale Sasamura-Owoeye, author of Elere-Omo: Spirit Child

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPipit Inc.
    Release dateOct 30, 2017
    ISBN9781386663423
    Abiyamo: Motherhood Incarnate
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    Wale Owoeye

    Wale Sasamura-Owoeye is a lawyer, poet, author, mystic, publisher, teacher and Renaissance Man. A Neo-Negritudian with the mission to make modern literary masterpieces for world audience, Wale Sasamura lives and practices law in Lagos, Nigeria

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    • 5/5
      Excellent resource on Yoruba philosophy on mothers and explanation of venerating women as a core principle of Yoruba cosmology. The author explains why "women's liberation" is an imposed, unnecessary, and foreign concept impeding African systems stabilizing community.
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      Trás uma perspectiva muito interessante sobre a relação da mãe com a criança, totalmente diferente da relação materna fora do território Yoruba.

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    Abiyamo - Wale Owoeye

    The book is dedicated to 3 special women

    MRS. B. M OWOEYE Nee Ajiboye

    (Rarer than black diamond)

    MRS. O.O OWOEYE Nee Faparusi

    (Fairer than gold)

    MORENIKE LILY OWOEYE

    (Jewel of prodigious worth)

    And all Abiyamos of the world

    E jeun Omo pe

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    •  PREFACE

    •  CHAPTER 1- MEANING OF ABIYAMO

    •  CHAPTER 2- RITES OF PASSAGE

    •  CHAPTER 3- MOTHERHOOD INCARNATE – Journey of Abiyamo

    •  CHAPTER 4- CHALLENGES OF ABIYAMO

    •  CHAPTER 5- DIVIDENDS OF MOTHERHOOD - OUNJE OMO

    •  CHAPTER 6 – INCIDENCES OF ABIYAMO

    CONCLUSION

    •  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    •  SNEAK PREVIEW OF OUR BESTSELLERS

    •  OTHER BOOKS BY PIPIT INC.

    PREFACE

    ABIYAMO – Motherhood Incarnate is a monograph written to celebrate mothers for their unconditional love and sacrifices in nurturing the child and maintaining the world. The book explores Yoruba cultural conception of motherhood, detailing the evolutionary process of Abiyamo from cradle to puberty stage, through the tortuous journey of pregnancy and Abiye, to the successful raising of the child into Omoluabi that brings honor and glory to the family’s name and society at large.

    Interspersed with Yoruba sayings and proverbs, the well-researched book brings out the beauty of Abiyamo culture to global readers, particularly Blacks in the Diaspora seeking insight into African motherhood; affirming the travails, sacrifices, challenges and inspirations mothers encounter in their special role as molder of the future and maintainer of the world.

    It must be noted that opinions expressed in this book belongs solely to the author, founded on his experience, exposure and culture. They are not absolute and should not be taken out of context. The aim of the monograph is to share the beautiful culture of Abiyamo with the world and it is hoped that readers at the end will be enlightened about one of the most alluring aspects of Yoruba traditions.

    CHAPTER I

    MEANING OF ABIYAMO

    -  LITERAL MEANING

    ABIYAMO IS A WORD that connotes a range of meanings in Yoruba culture themed around a mother’s role as Nurturer of Child. First, a mother, both expectant and nursing, is generally called Abiyamo. The word is formed from fusion of two words ‘abi’ and ‘iya-omo’ meaning literarily the mother who nurtures her child.

    Ideally, a mother who feeds, cares for, guides, protects and nurtures her child is properly called Abiyamo. It is the essence of love and bonding shared between the mother and child which is pristine and original. Abiyamo is the maternal essence activated in a woman upon puberty which matures and progresses through adulthood, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, post-natal care and lifelong molding of the child.

    When used in this context, a woman is called Abiyamo when she exhibits a nurturing attitude or disposition towards her child and by extension children of others. For this, one of the oriki (praise name) used in honoring such a caring mother is "Abiyamo aboja gboro gboro which translates as Mother with a long child girdle"; that is, long enough to carry her own child and that of others.

    Yoruba people also refer to as Abiyamo any woman who has had and lost some children out of her brood to premature deaths, called Abiku in old times, but who still strove to raise her remaining children into successful individuals later in life. Such women are celebrated as classic examples of Abiyamo worthy of emulation by aspiring great mothers and mothers to be.

    Their faith in motherhood, unconditional love for their children, perseverance, failures and eventual success makes Yoruba society to celebrate such mothers when in their old age and some beyond their deaths. In this instance, Yoruba people will speak glowingly of the woman by saying "O sha’biyamo meaning She was a great mother".

    In extension of the above usage, a mother who braves many odds to raise her children alone despite their father’s

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