Exploring Nimi Wariboko

         Images of architect Kunle Adeyemi, top left,  with his Makoko Floating         School, and Nimi Wariboko, bottom right,  juxtaposed   with   an image of        the Lagos Makoko settlement, suggesting creative transformations of life         the  architect and the  philosopher represent. Adeyemi ​ is shown​ with his Makoko Floating School under construction in the background, created within the space of the Lagos, Nigeria, Makoko slum, most of whose houses are built on water, adapting the design culture of the urban space in expanding its educational culture in a manner that indicates how humanity can expand her living space through the use of waterspace ​. ​ ​The Adeyemi picture is ​ juxtaposed with an image of Makoko, centre, and of philosopher Nimi Wariboko, bottom ​right , a thinker in the use of  urban design for maximizing interpersonal h...

  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.   ...

                                                                                     Abstract A reflection on the contemplative power of theologian, philosopher and economist Nimi Wariboko's acknowledgements in his forthcoming book The Pentecostal Hypothesis. The theologian, philosopher and economist Nimi Wariboko is a consummate and prolific writer of books. Scholarly books. Profound and complex. Verbally powerful, at times lyrical, at times conceptually and expressively muscular in uncompromising force, often imaginatively recreative. There is another side to Wariboko, however, that may be seen as being as significant as the Wariboko writing those books. The words of this Wariboko can be fitted into an essay but they are so rich that the Wariboko in those books might perh...