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Déwálé Logunleko: Forever Star
Déwálé Logunleko, photographed in his ceremonial regalia.
In Memoriam

Déwálé Logunleko: Forever Star

A video tribute to the figure whose name the Logunleko Ifá Archives carry.

An institution is, in the end, a name. The Logunleko Ifá Archives bear the name of a man whose work — across a lifetime in service of Ifá, of Yorùbá tradition, and of the long project of preservation that this issue’s accompanying piece on the Archives describes — earned that bearing.

Déwálé Logunleko, Forever Star — a tribute video produced for the Òrìṣà Spiritual Assembly archive.

This video is presented here as the inaugural item in what we hope will become a continuing tribute series — a way for the Journal to keep faith with the elders whose work made the contemporary Òrìṣà renaissance possible, and whose names should remain present in the consciousness of the practitioners and scholars who follow.

For more on the Archives that bear his name, see “The Logunleko Archives: Preserving the Voice of the Elders,” elsewhere in this issue.