Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Obituary: isidore Okpewho

People like Isidore Okpewho do not die. They just transit. It has been a hard and heroic six years of struggle with his health, since that return from St. Petersburg. Okpewho was a titan. His giant strides are all that we see in his work to recover the authentic voice of Africa, through the study of her oral archives. One of the greatest alums of Ibadan, when it was the "real Ibadan" and one of the kindest, most unassuming, most original, and most genial scholars I knew, Okpewho lives for many of us who found through his work a path to our own destinations.

Obi Nwakanma

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From: cafeafricana1 via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 5, 2016 2:59 PM
To: USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Obituary: isidore Okpewho

 

This is very sad. May His Soul Rest in Peace. Edumae a gba won si afeferere o. Ee ni ku, aku fa o. Ase

Funmi Tofowomo Okelola

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