Interview with the Alaafin of Oyo

[Toyin Falola]

 

A CONVERSATION WITH THE ALAAFIN OF OYO Please join us for a conversation with the Iku Baba Yeye, Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III. Tomorrow, Sunday, October 24, 2021 5:00 PM Nigeria 4:00 PM GMT 11:00 AM Austin CST Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81744516490 Watch on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tfinterviews/live Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2lvX7A2iVndiCq0NfFcb0w/live Copyright (C) 2021 The Toyin Falola Interviews. All rights reserved.

[Elias K. Bongmba]

Thank you Oga Falola.

I learned a lot from the interview with the Alaafin of Oyo. The conversation was enlightening in many ways and I thought the cultural decorum displayed through language and action was superb. I am not a student of Nigerian political and traditional history, but the Alaafin made me want to read more.

One thing that will stay with me for a long time was his rebuke (if I can describe it that way) of the proliferation (and abuse) of traditional titles abroad. We have that in the Cameroonian community too. You turn around your friend is addressed by some title, and you go really! Our own Chief Fomkem was on the lecture and can attest to the abuse of traditional titles which in the view of many, belittles our traditions.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Elias

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[Harrow, Kenneth]

is there any way to get a transcription of the interview?

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

har...@msu.edu

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[Biko Agozino]

Kabiyesi has spoken and he has spoken well, even with body language, kilo se mkpe, what do you call this? 

Viewers would notice how he was teaching us to always sit back and rest our backs, as I tell my students on every syllabus, contrary to the advice os a tech executive who wrote Lean ION to show women how to be dominant in board meetings like men even while they are pregnant with aching backs like the author. Chief Ebenezer Obey was also leaning back throughout the hours of interviews. And Kabiyesi was drinking water like OBJ to show us the secret of his youthful appearance, still reading without eye glasses.

Ejoor o, one question for Kabiyesi arises from his historical claim that Oyo remains one of the cradles of formal education in Nigeria. The question is why Oyo State performs at the bottom 10 of the WAEC league tables annually along with Osun State which used to be part of old Oyo, and along with 8 Northern States? Is it because they did not follow Oga Falola and his high school friend into the bush to eat the leaves of idi iwe, the book tree, in order to ace exams without studying, even though it did not seem to work in his Counting the Teeth  of a Tiger, where he find tiger self for Naija?

If it is because the bright students are not being taught smart study skills, that can be easily corrected across Africa for higher achievements. A proposal to do so exists for possible application internationally but no takers yet.

Biko

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