USA Africa Dialogue Series - WELCOMING THE FAGUNWA CROWN PRINCE TO THE LITERATI

With the excerpt below I welcome the Crown Prince of the Fagunwa literary family via a dream cast delivered to yours truly by the patriarch and faithfully penned in the Fagunwa tradition  more than fifteen years before the Crown Prince heeded the call:

      "My guest Orowole Fagunwa rounded on me at the end

       of his tale and began,  'Olayinka, omo Owa, omo Ekun, this is

       where this tale ends.... In my own time we used type-

      writers to write, in your own time the Primal Digitizer

       refigured the communicative potencies.  Messages 

      are sent through the Internet without going through

       visible wire disappearing like Akara-  Oogun into the

       void after his tale is told.  Hope all is well with your 

       brother Diipo and your sisters.  May Olodumare 

       strengthen the bond between you and may She bring

        us good tidings of each other.'  In this manner my 

         guest finished his tale excused himself to go to the

         toilet before departing.  After a while when he did not

          return I knocked on the toilet door several times

           then opened the door to find it empty and on the 

           toilet seat cover was scrawled on a note on an

            empty sardine can 'we shall meet again in the

           byways and highways of dreams.  Diitu

           

           Orowole-Fagunwa."

       Olayinka  Agbetuyi trans Adiitu Olodumare (also translated into French) with literary translation theory essay 'Primary Translation,s Secondary Translations, Dante and Translation Signatures in the Simulacra.

With theseI bid the Crown Prince welcome to the world of letters...

HRH.   OAA.

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