Akbar Gbajabiamila
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This tree they said that would never grow.
My brother planted this one, and I planted this one.
And then, look, this is the biggest tree in the courtyard.
He says, you see, you never know God's surprise.
I never forgot that.
But we walk in, and he goes, Alaji, Alaji.
And calling his mom, who had been to Mecca, so she gets the name Alaji.
And she goes, who's there, who's there?
He's like, Emi, Emi Mustafa, Emi, saying, it's me, Mustafa.
She goes...
She kept saying, who, my Mustafa?
No, no, wait, my Mustafa?
She's saying in Yoruba.
And it was the first time in my life I had seen my dad as a child.
I had never, like, he was just always dad, this big figure to me.
And I had never seen him as a child.
Like, wait, what?
I knew it was my grandmother, right?
Like logically, oh, that's my grandmother, you know.
You see him revert back into his child when he was in the presence of his mother.