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Prof. Adelakun with her mother and siblings on her 18th birthday.

In a moving personal essay, Abimbola Adelakun, Associate Professor of Global Christianity, reflects on the experience of remembering her mother and how ritual acts of memorialization reshaped that remembrance over time.

Writing with intimacy and care, Adelakun recounts the emotional complexity of her mother’s memorial service and the later decision to establish an endowed prize in her mother’s name. Rather than fixing memory in place, these rituals altered how grief lived with her: opening space for reflection, continuity, and renewed connection. The essay traces how memorial practices can transform loss, allowing memory to deepen and evolve rather than fade.

Adelakun’s reflection offers a quiet but powerful meditation on how religious ritual holds grief, carries love forward, and gives form to remembrance, revealing how acts meant to honor the dead can also sustain the living.

Read the full essay: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/843956-tribute-on-the-25th-year-of-my-mothers-passing-by-abimbola-adelakun.html