Ọlábíyì Babalọla Yáì BetweenTime, Space and Eternity
Ọlábíyì Babalọla Yáì giving an address at UNESCO I opened WhatsApp on my phone on the 5 th of December 2020 and read a message from Toyin Falola that Ọlábíyì Babalọla Yáì had passed away. Falola, who, in his In Praise of Greatness , visualizes himself as a visitor from the Great Beyond transmitting messages between those on Earth and those who have gone beyond Earth, broke this news about the luminosity that is Yai, the light ever shining, burrower into the crevices of the Yorùbá knowledge cosmos, poetic thinker, whose insights and expressions are like diamonds in darkness, you left the world of academic scholarship for the broader scope of UNESCO, yet persisting in the continuous flow of the river of knowledge that you are, you have now left the world of Earth for that zone mysterious, from which messages come only in dreams and revelations, leaving us to assemble the constellation of k