>An invitation from Professor Henry Drewal:
>
>
>***Come learn about the ancient wisdom of Ifa, the divination system of
>Yoruba peoples in Africa and the Americas
>
>
>"Ifa Divination: The Foundation of Yoruba Arts and Culture"
>
>a lecture/demo by Diviner/Babalawo Kolawole Oshitola of Nigeria
>
>Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at 12 noon in 336 Ingraham
>
>
>Kolawole Oshitola is a well-known Yoruba diviner (babalawo or
>"father-of-ancient-wisdom"), master drummer, dancer, and singer from
>Nigeria whose reputation as a "wise elder" and intellectual has spread to
>many parts of the world since being introduced as the major ritual
>specialist in Yoruba Ritual: Performers, Play, Agency by Margaret Thompson
>Drewal (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992). Drewal describes him
>this way: "Kolawole Oshitola [is] a seventh-generation diviner, drummer,
>and member of the society of elders known as Osugbo who served as the
>precolonial judiciary in Yorubaland. Oshitola is a scholar of oral
>tradition, a ritual practicioner and healer, master performer, and an
>intellectual. By virtue of his training and knowledge, he is the
>equivalent of a Western-trained scholar."
>
>Oshitola has worked with a number of African and American scholars since
>1982 and been cited extensively in many books and articles. His own
>publications include "On Ritual Performance; A Practitioner's View," in
>The Drama Review, Summer 1988, pp.31-41 and "The Role of Traditional
>Values in Contemporary Nigerian Business Practices," in the Proceedings of
>the Seminar on Culture and Management in Nigeria, 1984-5. He has given
>lectures and workshops at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in 1983,
>USIS in Lagos in 1986, and the symposium Oju Aye/Face Value: A Symposium
>on Yoruba Cultures in Transition at the University of South Florida-Tampa
>in January 2003.

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