What Marcus Aurelius Didn’t Know: African Roots of Stoic Wisdom
“…there is a longer conversation that philosophy classrooms almost never have, and it is the one I want to have with you today. Africa did not wait for Athens. The Yoruba tradition — specifically the Ifá corpus, 256 sacred OdĂą containing over 500 canonical verses in both Yoruba and English — was transmitting sophisticated moral philosophy long before Stoicism had a name, a school, or a single written text.”
