Baba Aye's

Ola Kassim, Thank you for your response, please. It is not only that we collectively clarify our thoughts and build bodies of knowledge through discourse, it is factual that we do as well construct our social realities, in the process. It is in this light that I welcome the continuation of this discussion with you. Having said that, I must say that you still do not get the salient points in my argument. While I will try to avoid being repetitive, I will expound on these by engaging with your argument in its present formulation. One of the major differences between human beings and other members of the animal kingdom, at least according to conventional wisdom, is the ability to separate what is good and wholesome from what is bad or evil, even though the two are not always clear cut. The ability which you try to grapple with above is not first that of separating, but that of defining. It is based on what is defined, and in that process of its becoming a norm that separation begins to ma...

One can't but chuckle at an assertion that the Yoruba in Brazil could date their presence here to pre-historic times. In this age when knowledge on issues such as this is a mere touch of a button away, for an intellectual to come to such conclusions is indeed very funny. There are facts that make in very clear that there was no Yoruba here before the 1540s. The Afro-Brazilian museum here is a must-visit for any African in Sao Paulo in my opinion. And one of the artifacts that got to me most was a letter from a freed slave who had gone back to Lagos, informing those here of the situation he met back at home and urging them to hold firmly to their tradtional faith. Candomble does have several roots including those from the Ewe, Fon, Congo-Bantu and (especially) Angola. The Orixas are however largely drawn from Yoruba mythology, and as well strong currents within its practice. I would however want to say, to the best of my knowledge (and I daresay, I have made quite a few 'journey...