'In my professional life, my grandmother’s expressions of her spirituality have been instructive in my understanding of faith and power.'
On Friday, the second day of June, my grandmother Sarat Amoke Adeyanju passed on. She was buried on Saturday according to Islamic rites at our maternal hometown of Oyo. We knew the end was coming. When you have someone as old as she was , you expect that phone call. Maami, as we called her, was pretty old, but when the end finally came, it was still no less shocking and painful.
Those who have known me for years must know how fond I am of my grandmother. She was not just my mother’s mother but also my mother. She was an abiyamo in the truest sense of the word. She raised my sister and me in our earliest formative years. My childhood memories are full of her loving presence. You could never have doubted her love for us. It was a love that loves without asking you to do anything in return other than bask in its purity. She was a nurturer.
Since Friday, when the news of her demise came, I have been scrolling through my phone album and leafing through an old family album to find photos of memories I might have forgotten but must now recall. It is incredible how the moments frozen into images can quickly thaw when warm salty tears touch them.
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