Blends in tribute to the late Professor Jean-Marie Apovo:Dr Raymond Assogba launches a call for contributions and testimonies

Dr Raymond Assogba launches a call for contributions and testimoniesProfessor Coovi Raymond Assogba, Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Boology and Integral Development (LaBooID) hosted Monday 31 October 2022, a press conference in the room 1 from the Multidisciplinary Doctoral School of the University of Abomey Calavi. On the menu, he invited people of good will to support his initiative which consists of putting on the literary market ” Mixtures“, a work in honor of the late Professor Cossi Jean-Marie Apovo.

The posthumous Mixtures to Professor Jean-Marie Cossi Apovo known as APOCOSS BEAUGOSSE is a university and corporate recognition of a Master, the inventor of Boology at the University of Abomey Calavi in ​​Benin. “It is an act by which,  colleagues, the disciples, and the Professor's friends want to pay tribute to the one who opened another avenue of research oriented towards endogeneity" said Professor Coovi Raymond Assogba while indicating that this work will highlight "The munificence of recognizing the memories attached to the odyssey of Cossi Jean-Marie Apovo, the companion, the accomplice but, also the eldest and Mentor who very early attached himself to the Great Work of academic rooting of the new science. This is by paraphrasing the Iroko, the tree of life in the Vodun mysticism of Professor Mahugnon Kakpo. “In the mystical Vodun, Iroko is erected as a tree of life designed according to a specific metaphysics Fâ, as knowledge of the Laws of the Universe. This is why we urge people of good will, namely teachers who have written testimonies about the character and others to help us make this project possible., a reality ", he insisted.

According to the Lecturer (LEGS), Cossi Jean-Marie Apovo known as APOCOSS BEAUGOSSE is not dead, rather he left for the land of the Ancestors to report on the work accomplished; hence the mystique “ZUNM€ TINGBO DAHO”. The shadow remains continues Professor Coovi Raymond Assogba “remains the shield of the march of inventors ; the Shadow punctuates the march of the continuators ; the Shadow nourishes the breath of those who dare to remember that the nourishing land of Ouidah in Benin, kneaded in the clay of the history of the adventure of universal Gnosis, the gesture of a warrior of the Light who dared to confront the fears of religious infantilization and the vault of Cartesian infantilization, to implement the tassels of a spring awakening academic system of the FA trilogy, VODUN ET BOO as resurrection of Benin ».

Who is Cossi Jean-Marie Apovo known as APOCOSS BEAUGOSSE ?

Cossi Jean-Marie Apovo was born on 8 December 1940 in Ouidah. He obtained at René Descartes Sorbonne University in 1980 a 3rd cycle doctoral degree. In the same university entity, he defended his state doctorate in 1995. He taught in the department of Sociology-anthropology of the former Faculty of Letters, arts and humanities (Flash) from the University of Abomey Calavi 1980 until 2012 although he was admitted to retirement on 9 October 2004. He is the author of several scientific texts on the social uses of Boo. He was elevated to the rank of Knight of the National Order of Benin. Died 21 February 2016, Cossi Jean-Marie Apovo was buried on 20 March of the same year.

He is the man of the impossible ; he is a human who is always attached to the recognition of others ; and, he trained generations of Beninese who are today retired executives, or even depending. Academics, college students or economic operators, hùnnꜿ or vodùnnꜿ, There are many Beninese people who have kept man's simplicity and love of neighbor ; he is also the man who had an international career, teacher in Congo Kinshasa, former Zaire where he taught philosophy. What to say about his time at Lycée Béhanzin, ex-Victor Ballot where he shaped generations of philosophers ! Some of his former students became his colleagues at the University of Abomey-Calavi, former National University of Benin ; and many of his colleagues knew him as a first-rate orator, whether during collective debates on national education or school programs. Cossi Jean-Marie APOVO known as APOCOSS BEAUGOSSE does not tell the story ; he lives ; and we understand that his work, BOOLOGY survives its return to the Land of the Ancestors. As the law says so : « Botꜿ or the Father of Boo does not die ; he returns to the Land of the Ancestors ». Cossi Jean-Marie APOVO known as APOCOSS BEAUGOSSE survives in the memory of his contemporaries ; better, in the memories of his former students ; and he is not, to the new generation who do not deserve to have followed his teachings until 2012.

Patrice ADJAHO