Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Conference update THE YORUBA NATION AND POLITICS SINCE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR J. A. ATANDA

Dear Toyin, 

Thank you for sending titles of papers to be read at the above conference on the Yoruba . Can you find someone to investigate ,

1. The knowledge of biological warfare in Yoruba land n the 19thc . The role of worshippers of. Sanponna ( small pox god)   The Alarinjo ( traveling theatre) used to use  small pox scraped off from dead victims of the disease and kept carefully in apo and then blown on hostile communities while leaving the town after studying the direction of the wind! The works of late professor Adeyinka Adedeji provides us introduction on this 

2. Everyday mathematics  and computation in Yoruba numerals .

I believe young people who know very little about this will be surprised about the mathematical concepts in Yoruba thought process. Prof. Longe,

the retired professor of computer science in Ibadan provides interesting insight.

I am out of Nigeria till December ,and as much as I would have wanted to attend ,I will not be able to come . I wish you successful deliberation and rich harvest from this important survey of Yoruba history.

Regards,

Akinjde Osuntokun, Ph.D OON FNAL FHSN

Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations

Bapitan of Oyo

On 2 Sep 2017, at 4:37 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote: