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Witchcraft, reincarnation and the God-head: Issues in African Philosophy 1992
Womanhood in Yoruba Traditional Thought 1993
Philosophy and Oral Traditions 1997
The Essentials of African Studies 1998
African Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernisation 2007
African Myths and Legends of Gender 2014
Socrates and Orunmila: Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy 2014
Professor Sophie Bọ́sẹ̀dé Olúwọlé (1936-2018) 1/7/2021 Babatunde Adewole
Adeoye: "One of the greatest Ìyánífá. A philosopher extraordinaire. The first
woman to get a PhD in philosophy in Nigeria. A distinguished Yorùbá scholar." -
"Una de las más grandes Ìyánífá. Una filósofa extraordinaria. La primera mujer
en obtener un doctorado en filosofía en Nigeria. Una distinguida erudita
Yorùbá."
Afùwàp?´ |
Official trailer | featuring Sophie Olúw?lé 9/15/2020 Juul van der
Laan: "Who are you? Sophie Olúwọlé asks."
Sophie
Olúwọlé's Major Contributions to African Philosophy 5/27/2020 Cambridge
University Press: "A champion of African oral traditions, Olúw?lé argued that
songs, proverbs, liturgies, and stories are important sources of African
responses to perennial philosophical questions as well as to contemporary
issues, including feminism. She argued that the complementarity that ran
throughout Yoruba philosophy guaranteed women's rights and status, and preserved
an important role for women, youths, and foreigners in politics."
Socrates and Ọrúnmìlà: Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy by Sophie
Olúwọlé (2014) By Ọlọbẹ Yoyọn 5/8/2020 Fádáskonà: ""They said Africans
could not think, that we were not thinkers, that we were primitive. I felt
challenged and said I was going to find out if truly we could not think. I
wanted to prove them wrong. After all, the so-called father of western
philosophy, Socrates, left behind no written accounts of his wisdom. That was
left to his students, writing after his death. If Socrates could be considered
the father of western philosophy, having left behind no written work of his own,
then why shouldn’t ?`rúnmìlà, who is believed to have predated Socrates, be
considered the father of African philosophy?"
Courage, Scholarship and the Revitalization of Traditions: The Life and Legacy
of Professor Sophie Bósèdé Olúwolé 5/5/2019 This Day Live: "Her first major
work, a book titled Witchcraft, Reincarnation, and the God-head, tackled a
broader question beyond what the title of the book connotes... I believe that
her book was also a treatise on the philosophy of religion and an explanation
for the simultaneous existence of good and evil as complementary entities in the
world. Here we have a demonstration of Olúwolé as a deep thinker interpreting
ordinary phenomena in a very complex and insightful manner, drawing on Yoruba
traditions. After all, the Yorùbá do sing ènìyàn kan ò lè gba ire, kó má gba
ibi; Tibi tire la dá ilé ayé. This is to say that good and evil are intertwined
and are equally forceful entities. Each has its own agency, consistent with the
Yorùbá worldview."
Sophie Oluwole: Nigerian philosopher who put Yoruba thought on the map 1/10/2019 Independent: "Oluwole,
who has died aged 83, also had to overcome institutionalised, and socially
ingrained, sexism – for which she blamed the British, from whom Nigeria gained
independence in 1960 after more than a century of interference and oppression.
“They disrupted our culture,” she said."
What is ifa? 2/8/2018 Juul
van der Laan: with Prof Sophie Olúwọlé
Philosopher urges Nigerians to embrace indigenous knowledge, languages 12/14/2016 Guardian
Arts: "Oluwole stated that several scholars have demonstrated that ancient
Yoruba thinkers understood the two basic features of reality, matter and
non-matter, not as two independent, opposing axioms, as taught in physics in the
west, but as two binary that are complementary and inseparable elements of
nature. She revealed that western scientists have now come to accept this as the
basic axiom in which reality in physics as pure matter is now defined as Quantum
Physics."
Book Review: Comparing the lives of Socrates, Orunmila 11/24/2016 Tribune: "A
review of Professor Sophie Bosede Oluwole's 2019 book, Socrates and Orunmila:
Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy by ADEWALE OSHODI."
FELABRATION 2016 with Prof
Sophie Oluwole 10/12/2016 Uncensored
Ifa is a Scientific and
Mathematical System? - 'Oro Isiti' with Prof. Sophie Oluwole #2 1/26/2016 Tunde
Kelani: "Prof. Sophie Oluwole is a renowned retired Professor of African
Philosophy. She is a cerebral scholar who takes great pride in her Africaness.
Her passion for Yoruba philosophy has opened a new frontier in the world of
philosophy. Tunde Kelani is known for his great movies such as Saworo Ide, Agogo
Eewo, Oleku, Ti Oluwa nile, etc."
Socrates and Orunmila… Putting Premium On Africa’s Indigenous Philosophy 8/22/2015 Guardian,
Nigeria: "The significant thing Oluwole has done in this book is to call
attention to, not new evidence, but a close scrutiny of the evidence already in
existence, and give it its due regard rather dismissing it probably because it
doesn’t fit too comfortably into western-generated ideas and mode."
Socrates and Orunmila. Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy, Sophie Bosede
Oluwole : book review 7/1/2014 Sabinet: "With this book, the debate about
African philosophy and the understanding of what African philosophy is about are
raised to a new level. S.B. Oluwole has worked already for a long time to make
clear what is specifically African in African philosophy. From a great number of
publications I just mention her book: [Witchcraft, Reincarnation and the
God-Head: Issues in African Philosophy], 1991. Excel Publications: Ikeja. In
this connection she has drawn special attention to the problem of [Philosophy
and Oral Tradition], 1999. Ark Publishers: Lagos. She uses frequently and is
very familiar with the Ifa Literary Corpus, an extensive text of Yoruba oral
tradition, of which big parts have been published in print and also translated
into English by Wande Abimbola."
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaLAozumEFi819oN8y0faxQ
Juul van der Laan channel with several works on Sophie Bọ́sẹ̀dé Olúwọlé
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Oluwole
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