From the Nigerian Civil War to Boston: Towards a Biography of Writer and Scholar Nimi Wariboko

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

From the Nigerian Civil War to Boston: Towards a Biography of Writer and Scholar Nimi Wariboko

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju 

  

Nimi Wariboko on a visit to Rome

The Nigerian Civil War.

Life in the challenges of Abonemma.

University of Port Harcourt. 

Punch newspapers. 

MBA Columbia.

Wall Street.

Return to Nigeria and Christian conversion.

Pastor in New York.

PhD Princeton- theology and philosophy. 

Professor, eventually at Boston University. 

" I declare this tower is my symbol, this winding,  gyring, spyring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair, that Briggs and Wankopan, have travelled there"

- between W.B.Yeats and Wariboko.

"I call upon those who will come after me, whose sandal strings I am not worthy to untie, inspired as I am by the genius of those who come after in the creative engagement with the rigorous quest for knowledge"

Nimi Wariboko-acknowledgements in The Split God ( modified bcs of limitations of memory)

Wariboko's life and work are best understood in terms of a dialectic between past, present and future.

Let us follow the child who lived through the Nigerian Civil War, a life long tendency to occasionally stammer emerging from the horrors of the experience, later  living through both love and hardship in Abonemna in Nigeria's Niger Delta, experiences likely shaping his later efforts to arrive at a nexus between economics and the divine. 

Stay tuned.

Apologies for any inaccuracies in the timeline above. 

They will be corrected later.