Thank you for this, dear Cathreaf. I was eagerly waiting for an interrogation of "As how now," that beautiful exclamation and question. But then I began to wonder when you veered off into the interrogation of the four-burner theory and how Africans possess a five-burner theory.

Where then is the "As how now?" I didn't get to satisfy my curiosity as to your first paragraph that seems to signal an intended exploration of that sentence. And i wasn't prepared for the analysis four-burner theory.

My second query is whether you think the Yorùbá always need to invoke the divine to explain reality. The Yorùbá are among the most rational of humans who also view reality in rational terms. I think you went far in assuming all dimensions of reality must be explained by a fifth dimension. The Yorùbá can also find a different explanation Fr the four burners and how they can all be turned up simultaneously without invoking a fifth burner which is super-natural.