B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN

Professor of Historical Archaeology, Director, AG Leventis Museum of Natural History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

Each day, each movement, one continually come across evidence of early civilization in the ancient city of Ile Ife! Just last week when I followed my fried to their family house being renovated, I collected classical Ife pottery sherds near Oranmiyan grove

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

This morning, walking round my area at Oluwalose Quaters, off Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Road, Ile Ife, I stumbled on two pots exposed by erosion! Ike Ife should be declared antiquity city! No construction should be carried out without cultural assessment of the area!

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

Oyawole doing what we love to do, excavating to expose potsherd pavement at the back of the demonstration building! Oyawole is from Ife

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@btunddej @leoleoqueen Be you ibi or Hausa or Kanu ri will not change the evidence before us.

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@btunddej @leoleoqueen If Ibo, Hausa, kanuri, Fulani, French, German, Russian, Americans are on the excavation team, they are to excavate and learn through our own heritage! This does not undermine the integrity of our research work to understand the history, technology and science of our ancestors

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@glchouin I am Co-Director of this project and from Ile Ife!

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@glchouin Gerard, thanks for this post! Yes, Stanly has been on our project for long among other students including more than 4 students of Ife origin!
Those thinking in tribal line do not understand the importance of training in an international project as ours! I am Co-Director

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@leoleoqueen In our work all over Ife, we have students and experts from Ife, Ekiti, Oyo, ilesa, Eko, Ijebu, igbonna Benin, imo, delta, Ghana among others

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@leoleoqueen Arewa, don’t be tribalistic! This is the tenth year we have been carrying out this international research work with archaeologists from all over the world and from different universities in Nigeria. Scientific research work is devoid of tribal thinking

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@leoleoqueen Seeing students and archaeologist from different parts of the of the world is telling you the great value of the research work! Only people with limited knowledge of archaeology and academic pursuits with think in tribal line

[Gérard L. F. Chouin @glchouin]

Meet Stanley O. Nwosu, supervisor and recorder of our excavations at Ita Yemoo. Stanley got his undergraduate training at UI and is currently a graduate student in amthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. We has been working together since 2021.

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@nigarchaeology @SAfAarchaeology @AIyunoluwa @Harbiolar_0 @HoustonTX Great ooooooo.

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@lasisilanre1 @TinaLasisi Professor Lasisi. Congratulations. I am proud of you. Please, send more video

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@AbidemiBabalol5 @lasisilanre1 @UVA @UVaSARC @OhioState @OSUanthro Congratulations! Thanks for making us proud! I am proud of you! More success!

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@glchouin @LabiTolu Gerard, the ife city wall is being destroyed as a result of urbanization.

[Gérard L. F. Chouin @glchouin]

Presentation of the Ife-Sungbo Archaeological Project in Paris in presence of the Vice-Chancelors of UI and OAU. Thank you to my colleagues Adisa Ogunfolakan, Léa Roth and Cécile de Seréville for giving life to our ppt presentation so brilliantly.

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@glchouin Gerard, thanks also for making 30 years dream of understanding the chronology of ife a reality. Thanks also goes to France Embassy in Nigeria, Campus France, Tetfund, NUC and other bodies.

[AUTO LEGIT @autolegitt]

@glchouin In the academic space of Nigeria, the VCs and DVCs (even Deans) tend to travel for all the important exposures often at the detriment of the Profs and Drs that put in the actual work, if this isn't the case, accept my apologies.

[B. A. OGUNFOLAKAN @babaadii]

@glchouin There will be clear visibility on Thursday! The ancestors have begged Olodumare and the day granted