Yanibo always tamed Ijapa, Yemoja was never awol. More imaginative students of Yoruba culture will answer Professor Agozino. Professor Oyewumi, your own efforts were, to my mind, a demonstration of the presence of femininity in Yoruba culture. Incidentally, Jews may be patriarchal in politics (to a point), but in lineage, it is the woman who determines descent/heritage!
Tunde Bewaji
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Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy
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University of the West Indiess
Mona Campus
Kingston 7
Jamaica
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tundebewaji@yahoo.com
On Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 08:05:39 GMT-5, Oyeronke Oyewumi <oyeronke.oyewumi@stonybrook.edu> wrote:
Great question, Biko!
On Mon, May 28, 2018, 6:22 AM 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Where were Mrs. Chukwu, Mrs. Mbe, Mrs. Nkeni, and their children?Biko--
On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju<toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:Magnificent.I wonder, though, if you can share other perspectives from classical Igbo culture on relationship with Chukwu?thankstoyin--On 28 May 2018 at 05:23, Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:"Chukwu the Supreme Being had withdrawn from our world to another
world. Before, it was possible to visit the Maker and hold banter with
Him, even play games with Him! It was such a pleasant thing to have
the Maker around, to visit Him and break kolanut with Him. Wasn't it
how He was able to confirm that Mbe nwa Aniga the tortoise was a very
great invention, a great crafty thinker that could match strategy with
strategy? "
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