I hereby thank everybody who contributes to my professional development.
I have in mind particularly
1. Professor Abiola Irele for commissioning me to write for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of African Thought the essays "Ifa/Odu", "Orisa", "Ori", "Modern African Art", "Adinkra" and "Mazisi Kunene" and for providing other opportunities for academic writing I was not disciplined enough to take advantage of.
2. Professor Toyin Falola, for getting me a contract to write a book on Ifa, which I am yet to deliver and for recommending me to write an essay on the contributions of the Nigerian Diaspora to Nigerian development in Challenges for Nigeria at Fifty : Essays in Honour of Professor Abdulahi Mahdi edited by A.M. Ashafa.
3. Owusu-Ankomah for commissioning me to write an essay on his art for the landmark book on his work, Owusu-Ankomah : Microcron Begins.
4. Obododimmah Oha for the information on the call for papers for the journal Reconfigurations, which enabled the publication of my essay exploring the art and autobiographical writings of Vincent van Gogh in relation to Ifa in the context of autobiographical theory.
5. The editors I gained contact with through the Society for the Academic Study of Magic who made sure I wrote reviews on Cyberhenge : Modern Pagans on the Internet and on Neville Drury's Stealing Fire from Heaven : The Rise of Modern Western Magic.
6.Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Carol Boyce Davis, editors of the Encyclopaedia of African Religion and Encyclopaedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences and Culture, respectively, who commissioned me to write essays on the Beja and the Gulu and on developments in contemporary African culture represented by the Mbari club and the journal Transition.
7. Dr. Masagbor, for commissioning me to write essays in the book The Way of Prose Fiction : Exploratory Perspectives, edited by Richard Masgabor.
8. John Pollard's encouragement of my contribution to the European Modelling Symposium 2006.
9. The organizers of the Metapolis and Urban life workshop in the Ubiquitous Computing Conference 2005 in connection with my paper "Navigating Spaces of Consciousness : A Dialogue".
10. Professor Rowland Abiodun for his fantastic letter to Cambridge University Press praising my blog Walks of Art and the educational network I founded and run, Compcros : Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems in relation to my review of his book Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art.
These initiatives span my academic training in literature, my self education in Western and African cognitive systems and my work in educational entrepreneurship.
11. My mother, Jhalobia Ojemu and my sisters, Ifuemi and Ameto Adepoju, for their unstinting moral and financial support in many years of seeking.
Encouragement by others, particularly those who provide opportunities and offer commendation and creative advice, is priceless.
A number of others whose efforts in my interests are priceless have not been mentioned here.
That will be done in another context.
Thanks
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
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