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The paramount monarch of Gànlɔdó is ߊߚߐ߫ߛߎ߫ ߊ߬ߜ߯ߍ߰ߟߏ߰ߜߊ߰ߜ߯ߊ߰ߣ ߊߖ߯ߊ߰ߛߌߣߜ߳ߏߕߌ߫ߣ ߖߌ߱ߛߝ߯ߌ߰ ߊ߰ߜߐ߰ߝ߱ߌ߰, Axɔ́sú Àgɛ̀lògbàgàn Azàsinkpotín Jǐsovì Àgbɔ̀vì. He was born and raised in the port city of Mobile, Alabama which happens to be the city where the last captive (“slave”) ship left from and then returned to with 110 Afrikans against their will (look up information on “The Clotilda”). He is a business school graduate of Alabama State University and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Culturally, the axosu is initiated and trained in several Afrikan priesthoods of the Afrikan Vodùn and Iṣẹṣẹ (Yoruba) traditions, including full initiation and training in Ifá/Fá divination and philosophical systems. The Axɔ́sú is, as he came into Afrikan traditions some years ago, an avid nationalist and maroon that does not compromise his political beliefs for any watered down and false ecumenical views of Afrikan traditions that may be in vogue today. The axosu is of the Garveyite school of philosophy and doing. He maintains, as he has always done, an Afrikan (“Black”) only ideology in relation to who are the rightful practitioners and who should be the sole participants in Afrikan traditions. The Axɔ́sú is an avid diviner, specializing in Roots and Zoto Readings yet being masterful at any type of reading using the Fa oracle.
It was on Dokun 12, 6251 (Sept 27, 2010) that the axosu was crowned as the first and only Ajã-culture monarch (Axɔ́sú) outside of Măwùfɛ (Afrika). This title is referred to as Axɔ́sú for male monarchs and Axɔ́sí for female monarchs. In 6253 (2012), he established the Kilɔmbonu (Maroon) Monarchy of Gànlɔdó.
His Imperial Majesty is the author of 22 functional publications on Iṣẹṣẹ and African Vodùn. He has made history by being the first New Afrikan (an Afrikan who descends from captive Afrikans in the itankalẹ or “diaspora”) to write a functional book on the Fɔn dialect of the Ajã language of Southern Benin Republic entitle Fongbe Primer: Functional Fongbe for Our Everyday World. He made history before that by being the first New Afrikan to produce a book of Odù Ifá with all 256 Odù Ifá covered. History was made later with the publication of The Hwlengan, which is the only Afrikan sacred text in the world written completely in an Afrikan (Fongbe) dialect and an Afrikan script (N’ko of the Mande people) and is Vodùn’s most sacred text. (There is no English or Latin script in this book). History was made again with the publication of a very sacred text called The Ganhumehan. Both of the aforementioned works had been suppressed among the Ajã due to internal corruption and captivity. History was made again a few years after when the Axɔ́sú became the only monarch to resurrect and use a West Afrikan calendar not influenced by non Afrikans.
Finally, history was made yet again in 6258 when he produced the powerful game changing book The Kilombo Paradigm: Maroon Sovereignty Through Vodun Culture. This book lays out the concrete philosophy and plan needed to nation build from a strictly Afrikan perspective using living Afrikan culture and spirituality.
The Gregorian year of 2005 marked him as being the first person from Mobile, Alabama to be initiated into the Òrìṣà, Egungun, and Ifá priesthoods.
The axosu’s royal lineage dates back to 727 years ago to the Xwelengbosu, or the Royal House of the Mighty Ram of which he is a direct descendant. This was a royal house in what is now the city, but back then the monarchy, of Xevie (Hévié) in what is now southern Benin Republic. From 5896 – 6042 AX (1655-1801 European time) his family, the Jisovi, possessed the throne of Xevie until his ancestor, Axɔ́sú Dehan Sagbaju, was assassinated on the throne forcing the family to go into exile in Oyo (a major Yoruba ethnic group and empire in SW Nigeria) which included his son, the crown Prince Ságbãju. The dynasty was seemingly forever interrupted as Prince Ságbãju and his family was ambushed and sold into captivity after trying to come out of exile in 6063 AX (1822) and take back the throne of Xevie from an illegitimate slave trading clan. From there, Prince Ságbãju was taken to Mobile, Alabama where he escaped captivity and became a Maroon and leader of one of the local Maroon communities.
Axɔ́sú Àgèlògbàgàn has resurrected the crown of his foremothers and forefathers yet is building anew far away from his ancestral home of Xevie, Benin Republic. This is one reason he is called Azàsinkpontín – the crown that crossed the deep waters. The Axɔ́sú is also responsible for creating the first and only official symbol for the Afrikan Vodun tradition called the sekplondo.
Picture of the Boston meeting of His Imperial Majesty Agelogbagan and Axosu Hakpon III from Porto Novo
Because of this extraordinary event of an axosu being crowned outside of America, in the year 6255 (2014), His Imperial Majesty was visited in Boston, Massachusetts by His Royal Majesty Hakpon III, the king of the monarchy of Xogbonu (the city of Porto Novo, Benin Republic). Axosu Hakpon was amazed at the depth of knowledge Axosu Agelogbagan possessed of Aja culture and equally amazed that the very thing the Fa oracle had told Axosu Agelogbagan about his Xevie heritage, His Majesty Hakpon also knew.
Xle Axosu – R”oyal Coat of Arms for His Imperial Majesty Axosu Àgèlògbàgàn
Xle Hwe – Royal Coat of Arms for The ߚߥߋߟߍߣߜߐߛߎ Xwelɛngbɔsu (House of the Ram)
