The Epic of Attah Ameh Oboni the Great by Ubaji Isiaka Abubakar Eazy
The Epic of Attah Ameh Oboni; The Great *Note: Attah Ameh Oboni remains; perhaps; the greatest king of the Igala people because of his magical prowess. Legend has it that the power of this king lies on the tip of his tongue which has so much efficacy so that whatever he decrees become so. How he came by such a magical power no one knows and no one may be able to tell till the end of time. They say he could look at a flowering green tree and command it to go dry and it would do so immediately, he had once poured sand over a river and commanded that a bridge appear and so it happened. Attah Ameh Oboni had enormous metaphysical powers and many of his followers became afraid of him. As the story goes, he was reported to the then colonial master who wanted to usurp him but could not as Ameh Oboni was not also ready to reliquish his authority to the colonial masters. In the wisdom of the people, no man however great should aspire to be greater than the society that created it, but Attah...