“The earth never forgets the footstep of betrayal.”
So says the mask of Egúngún, who walks not to entertain but to testify. When the Oba wronged the ancestors—when he dismissed the cries of the land and silenced the drums of his lineage—the ancestors did not retaliate with thunder. They waited. They listened. And when Ogbè Ìròsùn opened the path, justice…
