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"This structure is one of my compositions at the Akodi Orisa in Ile Ife.

This is not the way we were taught to make art.

We were taught that the ways of our ancestors are evil and that our forebears were devil worshippers.

Our professors taught us to imitate western ways of making art.

The images that our ancestors produced were called primitive and idols.

We were instructed at the universities to focus on the west as the center of our creative activities.

Our professors, poor colonized beings, made us into colonized artists who studied Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Bernini, Van Gogh, and other great artists of the west as our models.

But it is important for us to liberate ourselves from the colonial mentality that makes it impossible to grow, to escape our poverty mentality, and flourish.

It is important to decolonize our minds.

How do we do this?

There are many paths leading to the market place.

This is what i advocate: we must reconsider everything we were taught from the day we were born, up to this moment.

First, we must understand that the denial of our colonial status is the first symptom of being a colonized mind.

We must constantly ask ourselves this question: how do I decolonize my mind?

We must move forward by studying the ways of our ancestors and not just the ways of those who came to our land to conquer, dominate and exploit us.

The west will not deliver us from our poverty because it is not in the interest of the west to liberate us from their exploitation.

The west regards us as a gold mine to excavate and pillage.

But we must not submit to their exploitation any longer.

We must unlearn everything the west has taught us, and relearn the ways of our forebears to discover who we are and where we want to be.

Look around, and wake up.

The backwardness that holds us down is located in our blind aping of the western "civilization," which is like a butterfly that a child daily chases, and will never catch.

This installation is a homage to our ancestors.

It is inside a temple I constructed in Ile Ife, called the Akodi Orisa.

I know many of our people would find the construction strange because they have been brainwashed to look down on ancestral forms of inspiration and are already attracted to the shiny things of the west.

It will take a long time to decolonize our minds.

But we are on this long journey, one step after another.

More to follow on this topic."

— Prof Moyo Okediji

Quote of the day

“…Heisenberg took classical and quantum mechanics both to be examples of closed theories.

A closed theory, for Heisenberg, is one that is “perfectly accurate within its domain” and “correct for all time.” This notion of a closed theory had a profound impact on his understanding of theory change. Heisenberg believed that the elements of a closed theory exhibit such a tight interconnectedness that not a single concept can be changed without destroying the whole system. This means that theory change cannot happen gradually, but rather must occur all at once, by means of an “intellectual jump” that makes a “radical break” with the theories that had come before.

Although Dirac never uses the term, his own views of classical and quantum mechanics can be fruitfully understood as a rival account, namely, one of “open theories.” He argues that even the most well-established parts of quantum theory are open to future revision. Instead of viewing classical mechanics as a theory that had been replaced, he saw it as a theory that should continue to be developed, modified, and extended. He took no part of physics to be a permanent achievement, correct for all time.

Dirac's view of theories as open also had an effect on his account of theory change. Where Heisenberg argued for wholesale change, Dirac sought piecemeal modifications; where Heisenberg believed that quantum theory had to make a sharp break with classical mechanics, Dirac believed that there was a deep structural continuity between these theories that should be exploited. A juxtaposition of these two thinkers not only brings us to a deeper understanding of their philosophical views, but also promises to shed new light on current debates over reductionism and the nature of theory change.”

– Alisa Bokulich

We need a proven striker like Osimhen badly. Broja needs to be loaned or sold.

My preoccupation in the New Year: Using Odu Ifa to unify the fundamental forces of nature into a single theoretical framework continuing from where I stopped last year.

This is a grand challenge, which is why some silly posts here are better ignored.

Haters can keep on hating. Your hatred for A001 na the disease you go nurse all through your life.

Lunatic wan die for my mentions in a new year, lols spamming my mentions as if his life depends on it

RLC puts Milan ahead.

I don laugh tire for here. Who dis one dey fight with for here now? Which kind maniac patient be this, ? No time to read nonsense in a new year Lols Nairaland's one and only were digbolugi

Trevor012:
You can join the other foolish clown to forward your comment to Google. The most searched and talked about teams according to Google in 2023 is as seen below. Your fellow brother ranting and crying like a mad man won't change anything.

Nairaland lunatic dey look for who go engage am in a silly fight at the beginning of a new year. See as the were just attacked me out of nowhere unprovoked, lols. Make Seun do something urgently about lunatic people wey dey abuse him site.

A block button will restore some normalcy on this forum.

Lunatic dey fight himself, lols. Mention binned. I didn't even bother to read the nonsense.

OasisX:


.....make dem go ahead nah. LOL! Thanks Ẹ̀gbọ́n mi.

Lols, OK. Una wey dey into politics no be like us wey dey always crave privacy and anonymity.

Not an atheist, but an agnostic. Though many people often confuse both and call me an atheist.

Nevertheless, atheists and agnostics are some of the most intelligent humans on the planet.

OasisX:


.....took us 5 months but we get it finally. My team on ground really tried. Its time to cook for the state.

Congrats. You know say design guys still fit get your details in the attached image.

Osimhen was instrumental in the two games we've played so far. But he needs to be more clinical and score more goals. I love the hunger and ginger he shows in games.

Leyqute:
Better not to get your hopes up. We might still end up doing permutations and combinations

Yea, with super chickens, you can never really be so confident. Let's wait till Monday sha. But the coach no sabi anything.

BlueRayDick:
Both of them stood out; they closed those flanks down and restricted Ivorians to be playing aimless long shots .

I was really impressed with Ola Aina's offensive play today, even though he also did well defensively. As for Bassey, he was rock solid and kept the Ivorians at bay from the other flank.

Ola Aina and Bassey gave a solid shift at the back today. Onuachu was uber useless.

Ibime:
Nice one lads!

Put your calculators down fellas

Abi o. We thought we were back to the old days of doing permutation and combination in qualifiers and tournaments. Nevertheless, this gaffer is really a downgrade on Rohr.

At least, we should be able to beat Guinea Bissau on Monday to finish as the group leaders.

Roland17:
Competitions like these will help the goalie, especially if we make it to the semi-finals.

I really like his calmness and composure in between the sticks. A good win for us today, though I never expected it.

Not a bad first half. Osimhen needs to be more clinical in the opponents' half.

All set for the game with my calculator handy.

BlueRayDick:
The funny thing is the foreigners that caused this particular incident are even fellow Africans from what I’ve read online . They are most likely Namibian or Senegalese from an eyewitness account I read 🤦‍♂️

I read the same all over social media. Really painful and sad. They threw families into sadness at the beginning of the new year.

So na foreigners caused the Bodija gas explosion with their illegal mining activities. Na wa o. Human lives are so cheap in this country. The borders are so porous. Anyone can enter and leave the country as they like.

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BItt:
You need to understand the spiritual is real.
For better understanding African science is real.
If you are able to understand that, you'll be able to figure out nothing is extra special about religion

"African science" is a more appropriate term for what's called juju, voodoo. If you use the term "juju" or "voodoo", you're either an ignorant person/mumu or a conman (secretive/mischievous person).

As I said before, spiritual or supernatural events or phenomena don't occur in the physical world or realm such as Earth. Anyone looking for such in this realm should be ready to be scammed and defrauded many times by charlatans, such as pastors, alfas, and the likes.

Anything that manifests in this realm must obey the laws of nature as taught in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and the likes, or unknown laws of nature to be discovered in the coming years.

If it doesn't obey laws of nature, it doesn't belong in the earthly realm, but in another realm. The earthly realm isn't the only realm in existence, and whether something is supernatural or not is all a matter of perception based on your level of knowledge.

It's subjective. Science deals with objective knowledge, and something may seem supernatural to you because you don't know the laws of nature or universal principles underlying it, but to those that do, it's purely natural.

BlueMann:
I for drop one kind mad epistle for my Golden boy, but as today na my birthday, I say make I chill.

+1 today. Make una help me thank God

Happy birthday, Hazard's birthday mate!

Happy Birthday to Eden Hazard, one of Chelsea's greats, raumdeuter's nightmare.

If na the normal Chelsea wey we sabi before, this Enzo suppose dey chop bench till he changes his lazy, care-free attitude. The guy really fall hand.

I really admire Sadio Mane's generous and humanitarian spirit. He has done so much for his people.

Every African, who nature has blessed with wealth or knowledge in abundance, should emulate this and strive to touch the lives of their people positively.

We need more of Sadio Mane and other generous people on this forum and offline than those wicked Nigerian politicians.

https://www.nairaland.com/7960540/sadio-mane-constructs-stadium-village

Roland17:
You neva hear say the theme of the year for naija na

“No gree for anybody”?

Baba, no mind the gas wen him go blow to go back and return home, not forgetting the traffic of e far from house.

Next time when the woman see am, she sef go behave.

That theme of the new year no be for everybody. For students wey dey find funding for the US for PGD, dem don change am to "no GRE for anybody". Lols, I no come understand how Nigerians dey form all these slangs.

Na moot, moot I dey see everywhere since this year started. I no know wetin people reason reach that side

Jay Jay Okocha

Ab0bii:
Safe journey, no look back brother.

If you get to obodo ibo, make use of ifa knowledge to invent something big.

No be everybody dumb like you and the other idiot ranting all about here yesterday like a deranged fellow, awon juju crew of Nairaland. There are guys actually working on great projects inspired by the knowledge of Ifa.

But why would any sensible person drop details about their project on a forum with many dolts like you and your retarded companion? Nairaland hasn't matured to that level yet.

Asking me stupid questions the other time. So, you expect me to be discussing highly valuable projects with a m.oron like you here just to prove your useless juju exists?

No be everybody daft like the other kid that litters his pictures and details all over Nairaland. The fact is, if you've a great project you're working on or a great personality offline, you won't be so careless to be revealing your identity anyhow like that on a faceless forum.

Online reports say this Yoruba actor is dead
What a tragic loss in the New Year!