tags:: #author #Nigeria --- > [!SUMMARY] About > Wale Ogunyale is a Nigerian researcher and documentarian of Yoruba textile craft. As a 2024 grantee of the British Museum's Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, he leads a project documenting the weaving and designs of aṣọ òfì, the decorative Yoruba woven cloths including alápásá, alábẹ and jáwùú, carried out across Ìṣẹ́yìn, Ọ̀yọ́ and Ìbàdàn. His fieldwork records the looms, tools and techniques of master weavers, preserving an endangered body of craft knowledge for future generations. ### Mentions %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: start ```dataview list from [[Wale Ogunyale]] where !contains(file.path,"Authors") where !contains(file.name,"Recent additions") ``` %% - [[Warp/Talks/Welcome ✿ Nigeria.md|Welcome ✿ Nigeria]] %% DATAVIEW_PUBLISHER: end %%