Jazzmin Tennessee
Post 5
First off I would just like to say that I really enjoyed myself during Dr. Segun Gbadegesin’s presentation. Dr. Gbadegesin spoke of Iwa or existence/ character, and how we should never lose our Iwa. This stood out to me because I feel as though your character defines who you are and if you lose your character what is left to define your existence. He discussed the Goddess Ma ’at and the principles of Ma’ at, which are like what we know today as the Ten Commandments. The Principles of Ma’ at contain a list of forty-two confessions of things that have not been done in the honor of God. We talked about the ties that bind Ancient Egypt and the African World physically, spiritually, philosophically, metaphysically, and ethically. Dr. Gbadegesin presentation taught me about things that I probably would have never learned if I had not come to Howard University. Even though Dr. Gbadegesin has a very strong accent that prohibited me from understanding some of the things he was saying, it also made the presentation all the more interesting. So overall Dr. Gbadegesin had one of my favorite presentations because he not only gave us a sense of character and existence, he gave us a look into the lives of the ancestors that we don’t normally learn about, about the life of the great people who came before us, and the hope for the lives of the people of today and the future; I greatly appreciated Dr. Gbadegesin’s great Iwa.
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