STUDYING TOYIN FALOLA

                                                   Explorers of Ifa in conclave   at the Toyin Falola interview with Ifayemi Elebuibon, top left, Toyin Falola, top right                                                   and Oluseyi Atanda, bottom                                                                     Abstract An interpretation of the work and professional life of scholar and writer Toyin Falola in terms of the Yoruba Ifa system of knowledge and divination and in relation to an individualistic selection of some of the world's greatest creatives across history.    The Orunmila Paradigm and Toyin Falola's Work The Orunmila Paradigm is an aspiration to totalistic knowledge of human and terrestrial existence in its intersection with the cosmos understood in material and non-material terms, within a sensitivity to dynamism, to the unexpected, the unanticipated and the unknown.  It is represented by the circular structure of the opon ifa, a central symbolic form and instr