What is Ifa? Is it a religion, science, sport or
mysticism?
Are you ready for a journey to the edge of reasoning
to find out?
Ifa is a subject that is shrouded in ignorance,
secrecy, mystery, magic, fear and many nonsensical postulations.
What is indisputable, however, is that it is a Yoruba
‘thing’, an ancient traditional practice that has spread to other communities
in West Africa, and a very powerful identity of Yoruba descendants of the Slave
Trade in Cuba, Bahia in Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, some parts of the USA and
a few other places.
What is therefore special in the relationship between
Ifa, the Yoruba and life? Does Ifa have anything to do with the Yoruba’s
scholarship, religious plurality and tolerance?
What, really, is Ifa?
The Calabash is about to be broken to reveal all.
Dr. Tunde Adegbola is a Research Scientist, Consulting
Engineer and Culture Activist. He has taught Artificial Intelligence (AI) for
over 30 years in the Africa Regional Center for Information Science (ARCIS) at
the University of Ibadan and 12 years in the Department of Systems Engineering
at the University of Lagos as an associate and adjunct respectively. He has
also taught for various other shorter stints in many other Nigerian
universities, taking industry practice to classrooms. So, he comes loaded with
experiences.
He deploys Ifa to teach computer science and
technology, successfully using algorithms in Ifa practice. Through Ayo Olopon
(a board game that requires deep intuitive mathematical skills, common amongst
the Yoruba and other West African ethnicities) he teaches graduate students of
Engineering, Information Science and Computer Science with unbelievable
success.
There is now a global new thinking about Ifa that is
worth researching beyond the misconceptions of dark rituals that new religions
smear it with.
On ‘90 mins with Mathematical’ this Saturday, I shall
chat with Dr. Tunde Adegbola, a born-again preacher, the son of a Christian
Bishop, councillor and Christian apologist, as the public has the opportunity
to ask him all and every question on Ifa.
If Ifa is not a religion, if it is not science either,
what is it?
Unmissable, this Saturday, October 5, 2024, in a
conversation that promises to be mind blowing, on Eagle7 Sports Radio 103.7 FM
and other social media platforms.
Just click on any from 7:30 am (GMT 1 hr).
www.youtube.com/@eagle7fm
Direct Media player:
https://eagle7fm.com, and eagle7fm.com
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Dr. Olusegun Odegbami MON, OLY, AFNIIA, FNIS.
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