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Sophie Oluwole
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“It would be ridiculous to raise the question as to whether or not Ọ̀rúnmìlà was religious. He was the leader of a religious cult which established a school structured like Plato's Academy, in which various themes and subjects, including religion, science, morality, mathematics, the social sciences, etc., were taught.”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Socrates and Ọ̀rúnmìlà: Two Patron Saints of Classical Philosophy (2014)
“In Africa, you share what you have. Our sense of hospitality is communal. It will be improper for me to have such an important visitor without letting her also have a sense of the environment.”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prof Sophie speak about Africa in 2017.
“Look at Christianity and Islam. They have the Bible and the Koran. The books have ensured the continuity and spread of the religions – but, perhaps more important, the culture and tradition of the nations where the faiths originated from. Now, where is our own book on Orunmila? It is a question that should worry all rational Yoruba and African people, indeed.”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prof Sophie speak on African Essence and Oral legacy in 2017.
“They said Africans could not think,” Oluwole told the Punch newspaper, “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”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They disrupted our culture”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reality contains matter and non-matter”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing that is absolutely material. There is nothing that is absolutely non-material. And in all phenomenons in the world, the two are there together”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Africa is the only continent that uses foreign language as a medium of expression in institutions of learning despite the reports of many studies confirming the fact that the mother tongue is the best medium of instruction that facilitates better understanding of knowledge”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sophie Oluwole: Nigerian philosopher who put Yoruba thought on the map,10 January 2019,by Christine Manby,Peyvand Khorsandi
“In the universities in Nigeria in those days, Philosophy was not a discipline and when I was a child, even while I was in secondary school, the word ‘philosophy’ could never have occurred to me. The University of Lagos was one of the first universities in Nigeria to start Philosophy. It was even the first. Today, Philosophy is not even taught in secondary school. So, how could I be in primary school and think of becoming something I had never heard before?”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s the greatest accident in my life. I went to the Soviet Union, but I didn’t finish. I came back home to register at the University of Lagos. For the first year, I wanted to study English, Geography and History because I could use my school certificate to do so. But when I wanted to register for English, I was scared away.”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was told that Wole Soyinka was a teacher there and that among all the students that year, only one person passed. I ran away. So I was left with deciding which other course I needed to add to Geography and History. Because Philosophy had no prerequisite then at UNILAG, I was forced to go there. It wasn’t a matter of choice. So in my first year, I did Geography, History and Philosophy.”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did not prove them wrong. I proved to them that Africans are more reasonable, more scientific, and it’s even on record. Yoruba Philosophy is better than Western Philosophy. Yoruba Science is better than theirs. We are better than them. I have met about 10 non-African scholars who told me themselves that Yoruba Philosophy is superior to theirs. Did you know that we are the authors of Quantum Physics? They were talking of Liquid Physics. Their own is that if physics is true, then religion is false, but we believe both of them are true and that’s the foundation of modern science.”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope it will happen. But, the greatest problem in this country is the Ministry of Education. They are still asking us to learn the wrong thing that the White man is doing. How can we understand what is happening in Africa when we are being taught in a foreign language? English Language is compulsory; French is compulsory; but Yoruba Language is not compulsory, Igbo Language is not compulsory”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember there’s a river in Ibadan called ‘Omi Majedun.’ Small girls would be selling our local gin along the river, but whenever they sighted the police, they would jump into the river to evade arrest. Why? We are from Ondo. I remember my father once told me of a town near River Niger where they used to make iron. When they brought bicycles to Nigeria in the 1920s, the people in the town made their own bicycles”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source