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The science of Boology was invented by a worthy son of Benin, the late Professor Jean-Marie Apovo. Deceased five years ago, his illustrious memory was celebrated on Saturday, March 20, 2021 at the Houdégbé amphitheater of the University of Abomey Calavi. The initiative was from Professor Raymond Assogba.
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The objective is to perpetuate the legacy left by the master. And to achieve this, Professor Raymond Assogba intends to gather around him all the living forces of the cult and cultural sphere of Benin. “The science of Boology, the initiator of which is Professor Jean-Marie Apovo, is the science which will henceforth be able to free Africa from its exploiters and oppressors. Since it is a question of a science whose lung is the whole of our cultural values, in particular the “ Bo ” which we call the gris-gris. Professor Apovo, before his death, succeeded in demonstrating through his thesis that the practice of ” Bo ” in all its dimensions is scientific and is capable of saving Africa and its sons. And that is precisely what we are trying to perpetuate ”underlines Professor Raymond Assogba during the conference celebrating the illustrious disappeared. “It should first be noted that the Boology was initiated and inaugurated by Professor Jean-Marie Apovo who was our teacher at this university and who worked on the Boo. He defended a State Thesis in France, the title of which is “Anthropologie du Boo. Theory and practice of gris-gris ”. So you will have noticed that he took endogenous values, endogenous cultures as a reference and felt that it is time for the African that he was, to take an interest in culture and to do a research worthy of the name. that may interest the rest of the world. The “Anthropology of the Boo” developed later. All his publications in this direction were formalized in another science, a related science called “Boology”. It is useful to say that the Boologie is the pride of Africans and more Beninese. It is important to say it and to proclaim it loud and clear because this science makes the culture known, or if you want the variants of the culture, of our culture, of the Beninese culture. And, to come to make of this culture a scientific perspective which obeys the rigor and the methodology of science, in particular the Socio-anthropological science, to arrive to establish such a relation deserves to be underlined, to be recognized. Jean-Marie Apovo did not have the chance to develop this science of which he is the author. He has come a long way and today, Professor Raymond Assogba is positioned as the continuator of the large-scale scientific work that he left behind. So, to summarize, Boology has taken root in Beninese culture, African culture, has been theorized as a science and deserves to be continued, to be recognized as such. Because what comes from elsewhere should not necessarily take precedence over what is from our region. The essential thing to look for for this kind of exercise is to manage to create the necessary distance so that what is initiated here as science is known and respected by others ”supports Dr. Patrick Hinno to tune the same violin than Professor Assogba.
Teddy G.
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