The Executive Director of the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, Professor Wole Ogundele, said Beier's son, Tunji Beier, broke the news to him at about 3.00 p.m, on Sunday, in a telephone call.
Prince Oyinlola while reacting to Beier's death due to old age, described the event as a great blow to him personally and to all lovers of Yoruba culture in general.
He said Yorubaland and the academic community owed Beier a lot for his great efforts in intellectual preservation of several aspects of the Yoruba culture that would have gone extint.
He noted that Beier had described Yorubaland as a place where he discovered his own spiritual essence (ori inu), adding that his death had made the race poorer.
Prince Oyinlola noted that through Beier's efforts, world renown artists emerged from Yorubaland, listing Duro Ladipo, Kola Ogunmola, Twin Seven Seven, among several others.
He added that the deceased lived a very rewarding life of service to the black race, particularly in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea where he did most of his scholarly works.
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