Exploring Nimi Wariboko

  Purpose The poem  henceforth  titled ''An Encounter in a Forest: Dante Aligh i eri ,  Nimi Wariboko  and Myself ," of which I have published two parts on various platforms ,  is  a reworking of English translations of 12 th /13 th  century Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s  The    Divine Comedy   in relation to the work of the 21 st  century Nigerian/US philosopher Nimi Wariboko  in the context of my  life's journey. This conjunction is employed in assisting my exploration of my own existential and interpretive  growth . This exploration is carried out by working out  relationships  between the engagements with the  voyage  of human life by Dante, Wariboko and myself. The    Divine Comedy   is   a sublime  poetic  text  of spiritual  and philosophical  travelling , one of the world's greatest  creations   and perhaps the...

                                                   Image Above Painting from Imgur evoking J.R,.R. Tolkien's masterly literary development of the motif of journey in his The Lord of the Rings. The painting contrasts the intimacies of home with the beauties of the unknown stretching beyond the door of that home, akin to the tension between the comforts of their past life and the unanticipatable possibilities opening up for the journeyer in the story below.                                                  Summary    A person wakes up to find themself lost in a forest. A passing person offers help. Rescuer and rescued commence the journey out of the place.                  ...

                                                                                                    Nature-humanity integration.  An iron pole constructed in terms of a humanoid form crowned by a bird in graceful flight, surrounded by stylized,  abstractly depicted birds, an evocation of the Yoruba origin Orisa cosmology deity, Osanyin, suggesting humanity's perennial engagement with nature and its quintessence represented by the forest, the scene of adventures innumerable in literature, as in the story below.                Image source : Healing Arts online exhibition, Smithsonian .  Summary A person wakes up to find themself lost in a forest. A passing person offers help.   ...