Exploring Nimi Wariboko

         Collage composed of pictures showing Nimi Wariboko inside his Westwood home and an image of the  surrounding  grounds. Pictures from  Toyin Falola's Flickr album  commemorating Wariboko's assumption of the Walter G. Muelder Professorship of Social Ethics, Boston University School of Theology. "I live in a one-acre plot with manicured lawns and trees. The house and its grounds are at the foot of the Blue Hill near Boston. Birds and wild animals often come by my house. I have recordings of birds singing in the spring at my property. The house is in the suburbs of Boston, about 10 miles from Boston. When we moved from New York to this place in July 2007 my 13-year old daughter then commented about the town of Westwood: “This is Central Park with few houses.” As you know Central Park in NYC is vast heavily forested park. My daughter was used to the concrete jungle of New York City and the park was the green oasis in the midst of th...

The writing of the theologian, philosopher and economist Nimi Wariboko consistently demonstrates imaginative use of language, as demonstrated by his rich conceptualizations and  word coinages, complemented by his deployment of narrative and poetic texts often created by himself, and in which the roots of his more literary expressions in particular examples of imaginative writing, from the Bible to the poetry of the Nigerian writer J.P. Clark,  are at times evident. An example of his use of narratives is the following story Wariboko presents in  The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory,  in relation to a discussion of the grip of the capitalist economy on people in the United States of America where the writer lives : … a joke among immigrant African Pentecostals in New York  [involves a]  Nigerian pastor preaching about witches in Africa, how they control or manipulate the lives and behaviour of their neighbors o...

​              Image of Boston College in winter at the  university's Facebook page Abstract A brief overview of the work of the philosopher, theologian and economist Nimi Wariboko in terms of his themes and expressive strategies, the text vivified by correlative painting, sculpture and photographic art accompanied by commentary. The essay explicates this body of work to the general public and specialist readers in a way that highlights the significance of its themes and the adventurousness of its expressive styles, communicating these through conceptual power, beauty of expressive force and the evocative potency of striking images. Contents Thematic Spirals Image and commentary : Victor Ekpuk’s Good Morning, Sunrise Dynamic Expression Image and commentary: Olu Amoda’s Corner Eye II Biophilia, Cosmopophilia, Cosmophila and Awephilia Image and commentary: Gasson Hall spires, Boston College Image...