Aso-Oke cloth strip

‘ALHAJIMAMANYiLEOKOHOKEKEREiLORiNKWARASTETEOMOLEREEYObOANAbi’. These letters spell out a number of words, starting with ‘Alhaji Maman[u] [person’s name] Ile Okoh [his compound] Okekere [area within the city] Ilorin [city] Kwara St[a]te’. This is followed by ‘OMOLEREEYObOANAbi’. ‘Omo lere’ is the beginning of a proverb, ‘Omo lere aye’, that is, ‘a child is the profit/gain/reward of life’. ‘Eyonbo Anabi [or Anobi] ’ means ‘praise the Prophet’. The words on the strip may be part of an ‘oriki’, or praise poem, in honour of the individual who is named. The strip may perhaps commemorate the birth of a child to Alhaji Mamanu.