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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, AN EXTENSION OF YORUBA’S IFA CORPUS

by Johnson Okunade
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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, AN EXTENSION OF YORUBA’S IFA CORPUS

In the second year (200 Level) of my undergraduate days, there was Engr. Dr Alamu, the lecturer taking Logic Gates (CIT 219) at Alma Rohm every Wednesday morning. In one of his classes, he said the whole programming concept in computer science is similar to Ifa. He said the whole concept of programming was invented based on Ifa Corpus.

He was the strictest lecturer in our department as at that time so when he said those words I even hated him more. In my mind I was thinking the statement is a good explanation of his wickedness, maybe he is a ritualist; I used to think anything related to Ifa is evil.

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But now, I understand what he was saying. Engr. Dr Alamu was right!

Ifa Corpus and Programming


There is a thin line between Ifa Corpus and Coding, programmers are copycats of Babaláwos. Programmers write instructions/command (incantations) on Computers(Iyere-osun [powder from camwood]). Programmers write code to give instructions, Babaláwos recite odu ifa to give instructions.

Àfọ̀ṣẹ (oun tí a fọ̀ tí ó sì ṣẹ) means command/code. You write codes to give commands and make things happen. The whole concept of programming imitates Yorùbás’ Ifa Corpus.

Incantation (computer codes) can animate the entities in the computer/system and make them become whatever we want: A Signature Verification System, Traffic Controller Systems, Computer Games, and any computer/mobile application you can think of.

Opele Ifa
Opele Ifa

Computer programming is logic, see the image of opele above. The Opele (Irere) consists of eight half-nuts of the Opele tree.

Most people just assume that Babalawos invoke evil spirit to make divinations (kudos to Yorùbá actors that keeps confusing people by looking into black pots or looking into some clothes on the wall for the cause of a problem), what they don’t know is that Babalawos rely on “Ifa dida” before addressing issues brought to them.

After the “Ifa dida” the result they get from the opele which is similar to logic is then used to predict.

When a Babaláwo cast opele (ifa dida) to make divinations the half-nuts of the opele will divide side by side into two rows, four on each side. If the half-nut opens, it’s the same as “1” if it closes, “0”.


The result of the opele is what determines the odu ifa the Babalawo will recite and use in making his predictions.

That is binary or logic; the only language Computer understands.

Prof Wande Abimbola
On 27 October 2011, Pope Benedict XVI travelled to the town of Assisi to start off the inter-religious meeting. Once there, leaders from the world’s major religions gathered to pray for world peace including Prof. Wande Abimbola (Spokesman IFA and Yoruba Religion), Acharya Goswami Shri Shrivatsa (Representative of the Hindu Religion), Ja-Fri Seung (President of “Jogye Order,” Korean Buddhism), Mr Kyai Haji Hasyim Muzadi (Secretary-General of the International Conference of Islamic Schools), Professor Julia Kristeva (Representative Non-Believers), Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse intervention Tveit (General Secretary World Council of Churches), Rabbi David Rosen (Representative of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, etc. They all gave various speeches at the event.
Prof Wande Abimbola giving speech
Prof Wande Abimbola

According to the former vice-chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Prof Wande Abimbola:

Ifa is one of the orisa (divinity) of Yoruba people. It started in Ile-Ife since the beginning of the Yoruba race. We know of Obatala, Ogun, Oya, Osun and so on. Ifa is one of them but it is different because it has more extensive literature than any other divinity. All the chants of Ogun can be rendered in two volumes; like the size of a Bible.

But Ifa is versed. There are 256 odus (books) of Ifa. Each odu contains 800 stories. The first book is Ejiogbe and it has 800 stories. In all, we have a total of 204,800 stories. 

That will fill the size of a large library. There is no other literature in the world that has such a volume. Ifa is the greatest heritage of Africa. It talks about everything. It is our own encyclopaedia which is held orally. It is a testimony to the fact that the human brain can retain a lot of information without having to write anything.

When Orunmila or Ifa was alive, he had two eyes in the front and two at the back. A Babalawo will cast and see everything that will happen to the client. It is completely scientific.

It is different from being possessed by orisas like a Sango or Osun priest. After feeding and dancing to those orisa, they can possess you and you will start saying what they ask you to say. Babalawo does not function like that. He uses verses of the odu that he casts.

Ifa is the greatest African gift to the whole world. Unfortunately, while Ifa has travelled all over the world, Yoruba people, who are the real owners are ignorant about it because somebody changed our minds. There are white people who are now Babalawo and some of them have private jets from the practice.


Prof Wande Abimbola and other world spiritual leaders
Prof Wande Abimbola and other world spiritual leaders praying for world peace

We Africans believe everything from our culture is evil and unprogressive. This society condemns our indigenous culture and exalts foreign culture.  Babalawos are portrayed as evil most especially in our movies.

Yes, I believe there should be reorientation and some evil traditions should be jettisoned but that doesn’t mean the totality of the Yorùbá culture is evil.

The Bible has Old and New Testament for a reason, we can also decide to focus on the positive and progressive sides of our culture, I believe it’ll go a long way in propelling us towards the greatness we crave in Africa, and in truth the greatness we deserve.

REFERENCES
  • Ifa – A Computer Programmer’s Perspective by Olobe Yonyo
  • What is Ifa in the real sense by Prof Wande Abimbola

Thanks so much for your time.
Please drop your opinion in the comment session below.

Written by Johnson Adé OKÙNADÉ, an enthusiast of Indigenous Culture

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There is a thin line between Ifa Corpus and Coding, programmers are copycats of Babaláwos. Programmers write instructions/command (incantations) on Computers(Iyere-osun [powder from camwood]).. Programmers write code to give instructions, Babaláwos recite odu ifa to give instructions.
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  1. Anonymous says:
    2 years ago

    Computer programming is not a mystery, in my opinion, it’s nothing like Ifa, computer programming is logic. A lot of things are abstract and not easily understood, we cannot automatically say they are similar to mystery. But nice right up though

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    • Johnson Okunade says:
      2 years ago

      Thanks for the nice comment, I agree with you that Computer programming isn’t a mystery. You said computer programming is logic, have you seen an opele before? If you have, you’ll understand it uses nothing but logic to first make divinations (Ifa dida) and then predict based on the result(odu). The Opele (Irere) consists of eight half-nuts of the Opele tree.

      When a Babaláwo cast opele to make divinations the half-nuts of the opele will divide side by side into two rows, four on each side. If the half-nut opens, it’s the same as “1” if it closes, “0”. the result of the opele is what determines the odu ifa the babalawo will recite and use in making his predictions.

      That is binary/logic; the only language Computer understands.

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  2. Femi Adelaja says:
    2 years ago

    Not a computer person, but I’ve always seen programming as a mystery. This article is the answer to some of the questions baffling me

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  3. Anonymous says:
    2 years ago

    I enjoyed reading every bit

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  4. Fredrick says:
    2 years ago

    This makes sense

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