Professor Pierre Verge
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Ojogbon Pierre Verge
Pierre Verge
Pierre Fatumbi Verge
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Pierre Fatumbi Verge ati awon ise ti won se lori ede Yoruba (PIERRE VERGE AND YORUBA STUDIES)
Ni odun 1975 ni won gba Pierre Verge si ise ni Department of African Languages and Literatures ti o si wose ni 1976. Opolopo ise ni o gbe se nigba ti o wa ni Ile-Ife o si je ki ede Yoruba gbayi ki o gbeye debi pe awon ti o n kose isegun Oyinbo ni ile-eko naa wa n mu ise ti o n ko lori isegun ibile mo ise. Die ninu awon ohun ti ojogbon yii se lori ede Yoruba ni a ko ni ede Geesi ni isale yii.
Pierre Verger was appointed as a visiting Professor at the Department of African Languages and Literatures in October 1975 but he took up the appointment in March 1976. He was one of the leading scholars of Yoruba studies especially in the area of religion, folk medicine and the Yoruba culture in the New World. He gave many seminars in the Department: His paper on the Yoruba Medicinal Plants was well written with detailed exemplification from the Ifa Literacy Corpus. He also presented another paper on the Yoruba culture in Brazil.
He worked on the identity, meaning and function of the orisa especially as revealed in the Ifa corpus. He planned to publish a Monograph on each of the major orisa but he could not do this before he left.
By the time Professor Verger was at Ife, he was already an old man at 75 but he was still very energetic. He attended departmental meetings and seminars regularly and contributed meaningfully to discussions. He also executed any assignment given to him with dispatch. He was a humble man despite his age and world-wide recognition as an eminent scholar. Although he was at Ife, he was an associate member of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Professor Verger was involved in the teaching of the Yoruba folk medicine component of YOR 303 (Yoruba Civilization, Sociology, Religion and Thought, Art, Music, and Yoruba folk medicine). It was the only course in the Department where students from the Faculty of Health Sciences were enrolled and understandable, because of the medical component.