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This is the closest translation I could get- not entirely accurate but when is translation ever? Hope this helps.

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Mo fe bé'ere l'owo e, ki lo dé t'o ti japa látì kólóni wa? O dùn mi gan. Ẹni nikan ti sọ fun mi pé o'ò ṣé dada ninu "teèsti" wa, sugbon o'ò lé jẹ iyẹn tó ṣẹlẹ, abi?

Translation:

I wanted to ask, why did you leave our colony? I really felt your absence. Someone told me that you didn't do well in our test, but that can't be what _really_ happened, right?

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Just offering some potential matches and translations for the languages here! I was gonna do a whole frequency analysis graphic, but I'll give you the long and short.

All the non-English writing in this seem to come from the same language (notice the consistency in letter formation patterns) and as far as I can tell, the first two segments are names. The first is "Mojoyinoluwa", which means something like "God's Honey". The second is "Demola", likely a shortened version of "Ademola", meaning "arrived with wealth." These are both matches with Yoruba names. For the longer segment, I'll post the plaintext then the English translation in a separate comment.

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