Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Elegance, Vitality, Power at Felix Okeke-Ezigbo Memorial

great thanks MA. Most honoured

On Wednesday, 29 June 2022 at 15:26:02 UTC+1 mafo...@yahoo.com wrote:

Thank you, Oluwatoyin, for capturing and sharing this solemn occasion in words and images. May the legacy of this captivating intellectual linger long around us. May you and all those connected to him be comforted.

Michael O. Afoláyan

On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 12:57:20 AM CDT, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovde...@gmail.com> wrote:

                                 Elegance, Vitality, Power at Felix Okeke-Ezigbo Memorial        

                                                        Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

                                                                    Compcros

Celebrating the effusion of beauty I encountered on 25th June 2022 at the memorial to my teacher and later senior colleague at the Department of English and Literature, University of Benin, Dr. Felix Okeke-Ezigbo, later Professor of Literature at the University of Rhode Island, unfailingly sartorial, nimble of foot, quick of mind, master of a word universe in English and Igbo. 

 The first picture, of the invitation pack, is by my sisters, Ameto and Ifuemi Adepoju. Great thanks to them for showcasing it in the glorious expanse of their garden.  The rest are by me. 

                                                                            

             

    

                                             Exterior and Interior of Majestic Invitation Pack

        with free cloth to be made into an outfit for the occasion, notebook, gift note and invitation card 

                                                     

            

                                                     First Page of Commemorative Brochure

                                                                                    

                                                                                 

                                    

                                                         Entrance to the Occasion at Villa Dome, Ikoyi

                                                                                    

                                                   

                                                       Traditional Music Performers at the Entrance

                                                                                    

                                  

                                                                  Bouncers at the Entrance

                                                                                        

                                                

Food and Drink Flow in Abundance as the Main Celebrant Looks On, Represented by his Picture on the Wall

The height of the celebrations emerged when the gathering broke into dance, family, friends, well wishers gyrating the night away in memory of the erudite scholar, who had lived through the Nigerian Civil War as poet and combatant armed with intellect and pen, returned to Nigeria as scholar and teacher, journeyer from Nigeria to the US and back to the US in quest of knowledge and professional growth and livelihood,  his charming smile shaping his beautifully robust cheeks in a face yet focused on duty, how it would please his heart to see those in flesh and blood living the glories of the Earth in his memory as he watches from plains beyond.

                                                                               

                                       

                                                                 Friends and family gyrating

                                                                                  

                                                             

                        Saxophonist serenades a lady rolling in rhythm to the powerfully melodious vibrations 

                                                                               

                            

Traditional Dancers in Action Against Background of Slide Show Image of Okeke-Ezigbo and His Wife, Dorothy

                                                                                  

                                               

                                                           Elegance radiant, food and drink abundant

                                                                                              

                                

                                                                The Okeke-Ezigbos in Action

     Daughter, Chioma, second from left, perhaps with her children. Husband of first daughter, Nnenna, I 

    presume,  extreme right, perhaps with their children

                                                                                       

                       

                     A particularly dynamically dancing guest holds the floor as Nnenna watches at the left 

                                                                                    

                                                       

                       A beauty at the occassion, Arit Oku, Okeke-Ezigbo's former student and later colleague

                                                                                      

           

                   Time is suspended as past, present and future converge in a fairy tale atmosphere

                                 

                                                                                     

                               

                                                       Mesmeric procession of smoking palm wine 

                                                                       

                       

Dancers in Action Against Background of Slide Show Image of the Wedding of One of Okeke-Ezigbo's Daughters

                                                                                 

                                                       

                                                             Okeke-Ezigbo in his Ebullient Self

                                                                                      

                                                                                          

                                               

       Yours truly giving a speech on my former teacher, Okeke-Ezigbo, calling on his wisdom to guide us 

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