Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - TF at 70: A meditation on nothingness

Congratulations to you, professor Toyin Falola on your birthday. I got to know about the virtual event for your birthday late in the the day. And when I tried to connect myself, the event was over.

I wish you a healthy and successful year, mentoring on Afican history for the good of all of us.

Sincerely yours,

Dr Emery Patrick EFFIBOLEY

Maître-Assitant en Histoire de l'Art

Chef, Département d'Histoire et d'Archéologie, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Bénin

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg,(2014-2016) 

www.researchgate.net/Profile/Emery_Effiboley

 

Le dimanche 1 janvier 2023 à 14:57:19 UTC+1, <seguno2013@gmail.com> a écrit :

Congratulations TF, the new Septuagenarian and thanks for sharing your meditation with me and the rest of the world. 

TF, you have achieved so much in your existential life and have generously impacted hundreds and thousands of lives; and still making contributions to humanity. 

in all honesty, your life is not vanity upon vanity. You have built mansions to store your legacies to eternally immortalize your footprint on this planet earth. 

According to Yoruba philosophy of primordial existence, your 'being' that is, 'yourself' decided to come to this world through your parents; and you also made the choice of what you want to accomplish on this plant earth and once that is achieved, you then return to the abode of Olodumare. In this ontology, there is no remorse of life or nothingness or vanity upon vanity because that is the nature of human existence. 

In this philosophy, you only fulfill your own circle of life, your destiny. Your eventual transition is not to Nothingness but to Olodumare, your Creator. Olodumare is not 'Nothingness' in Yoruba philosophical theology. 

Happy birthday. I wish you all your heart desires. 

Segun Ogungbemi.

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On Jan 1, 2023, at 3:11 AM, 'Ololade Bamidele' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:



TF at 70: A meditation on nothingness, By Toyin Falola  

TF at 70: A meditation on nothingness, By Toyin Falola Toyin Falola In nothingness is the secret of a new beginning, the audacity of knowledge to reinvigorate the metaphysics of life.

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