An Archaeologist with a difference and a Voice for the Past in this age
Picture this! You stand in the midst of an age-old Yoruba cityscape as twilight creeps over the horizon. The simmering West African sun paints the sky in hues of purple and gold, giving way to a resplendent celestial panorama. You sense an ancient connection, a dialogue between earth and sky, culture and cosmos, echoed in …
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The ancient Yoruba civilization reached its apogee in the first half of the second millennium AD without developing "writing"as a means of communication. Instead, they made abstractions through material and immaterial cultural practices. This talk explores how the Yoruba indigenous hermeneutics shed light on material records. It interprets the Yoruba conceptual idea of the world …
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with a year of funding to facilitate the completion of projects that will form the foundations of their scholarly careers. This program is made possible by a grant from …
OLANREWAJU LASISI 