Dr. Gbadegesin came to lecture our class on 9/30/10. He is a professor and associate dean here at Howard University in the college of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gbadegesin came into our class and first paid respect to those who came before him, after him, and to us. I found this to be an extremely interesting and effective introduction technique that drew me in to what his lecture was going to be about. Dr. Gbadegesin then started to discuss the story of Iwa, and then he used this story to relay the morals of the story which was about being yourself and your character because those are the only things that truly last. This message, I found was extremely important to think about because in today’s society, character truly isn’t valued as much as other things like money and beauty. It amazed me how an ancient story was able to still apply truly to today’s world and attitude on how to act. Dr. Gbadegesin then moved on to discuss the precursor as he stated, of the Ten Commandments, the “Principles of Ma’at”. Dr. Gbadegesin explained how these carried the same principles of the Ten Commandments and his explanation of they truly could be the precursor to them was truly interesting and plausible. These principles had great and important messages for all of us to listen to, and be reminded of. I really enjoyed listening to Dr. Gbadegesin’s lecture because his speaking skills were great and he was able to keep the whole class interested the entire time.
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