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Professor Wándé Abímbọ́lá

Professor Wande Abimbola is President and Founder of Ifa Heritage Institute.

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This book is a series of interviews with Wande Abimbola on various aspects of Yoruba life, religion and culture in West Africa and the Americas.

Chief Ògúnwán̄dé "Wán̄dé" Abím̄bọ́lá is a Nigerian academician, a professor of Yoruba language and literature, and a former vice-chancellor of the University of Ife. He has also served as the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Federal Republic.

Professor Abimbola is the author of over 10 books and many articles on Ifa and Yoruba Religion.

The French scholar Pierre Verger and the Nigerian scholar Wande Abimbola are found to be the principal forerunners of the literary process leading to an ase.

He served as Vice Chancellor (President) of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) from 1982-1989. From 1992-1993 he was Senate Majority Leader of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. From 2003-2005, Professor Abimbola served as Special Adviser on Cultural Affairs and Traditional Matters to the President of Nigeria.

Wande Abimbola was installed as Awise Awo ni Agbaye (Spokesperson of Ifa in the Whole World) in 1981 by the Ooni of Ife on the recommendation of a conclave of West African Babalawos.

The Awise was born in Oyo, Nigeria.

His late father, Abimbola Iroko, a veteran of World War I and a renowned hunter whose brave exploits are celebrated by Ijala artists, was the Asipade (Leader of the Ogun Community) until his death in 1971. His late mother, Sangodayo Ifagbemisola Awele, a high priest of Sango, lived mentally and physically well until she departed the earth