{"id":176452557,"date":"2015-03-31T03:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T08:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176452557"},"modified":"2015-03-31T03:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T08:24:06","slug":"obit-video-dr-ben-dr-yosef-alfredo-antonio-ben-jochannan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2015\/03\/31\/obit-video-dr-ben-dr-yosef-alfredo-antonio-ben-jochannan\/","title":{"rendered":"OBIT + VIDEO: Dr. Ben [Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nytimes-logo379x64.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176451665\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nytimes-logo379x64.gif\" alt=\"nytimes logo379x64\" width=\"379\" height=\"64\" \/><br \/>\nMARCH 27, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contested Legacy <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"story-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of Dr. Ben, a Father of<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"story-heading\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> African Studies<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-meta-footer\" class=\"story-meta-footer\">\n<p class=\"byline-dateline\"><strong><span class=\"byline\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">By\u00a0<span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"SAM KESTENBAUM\">SAM KESTENBAUM<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176452558\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176452558\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-176452558\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-01.jpg\" alt=\"Yosef Ben-Jochannan, 96, at the Bay Park Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Feb. 22. Credit Damon Winter\/The New York Times\" width=\"600\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-01.jpg 675w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-01-300x278.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176452558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Yosef Ben-Jochannan, 96, at the Bay Park Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Feb. 22. Credit Damon Winter\/The New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"922\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-zRi7IoPjho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"201\" data-total-count=\"201\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Africana studies professor Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan was born on December 31, 1918 in Ethiopia to a Puerto Rican woman, Julia Matta and an Ethiopian man, Kriston ben-Jochannan. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to St. Croix, part of the United States Virgin Islands, where he grew up as an only child. ben-Jochannan attended the Christian Stead School in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. After graduation from high school in 1936, ben-Jochannan attended the University of Puerto Rico where, in 1938, he received his B.S. degree in engineering. During that summer, ben-Jochannan&#8217;s father sent him to Ethiopia to study firsthand the ancient history of African people. He returned home and received his M.A. degree in anthropology from the University of Havana in 1939. ben-Jochannan holds Ph.D. degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Havana.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1940, ben-Jochannan immigrated to the United States and working as senior draftsman for architecture firm, Emery Roth &amp; Sons, in New York City. Seven years later, he began leading tour groups to Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. He led the groups twice a year for several decades. ben-Jochannan&#8217;s teaching career began in 1950 at Malcolm-King Harlem College and City College of New York in New York City. In 1976, he became an adjunct professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. ben-Jochannan has worked closely with other notable Africana studies scholars including John Henrik Clarke, Edward Scobie, and Leonard Jeffries.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ben-Jochannan has written and published over forty-nine books and papers including, We the Black Jews, Black Man of the Nile and His Family, and Africa: Mother of Major Western Religions<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"201\" data-total-count=\"201\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">The faded plaque to the right of the door said \u201cJochannan, Yosef B.,\u201d but visitors to this nursing home on the northern edge of the Bronx knew the frail 96-year-old inside by another name: Dr. Ben.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"61\" data-total-count=\"262\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">As a sign of respect, many would also bend down on one knee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"266\" data-total-count=\"528\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">The room was covered in mementos from a life spent between continents, weaving together the threads of the African diaspora: honors and awards, photos of Egyptian statues, kente cloth, a mug decorated with hieroglyphs and piles of letters from admirers and acolytes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"221\" data-total-count=\"749\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan seemed unaware of the shrine that had accumulated around him. His eyes were barely open. He sat hunched in his wheelchair, dressed in baggy pants, a faded purple sweatshirt and a kufi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"103\" data-total-count=\"852\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">One of his daughters held his hand; a granddaughter showed him photos of her own child on a cellphone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"217\" data-total-count=\"1069\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Though he now had difficulty speaking, exhausted by even the smallest effort, Mr. Ben-Jochannan was once a powerful orator and a prolific author, one of the most vital and radical Afrocentric voices of his generation.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176452559\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-02.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176452559\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-176452559\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-02.jpg\" alt=\"Seated, from left, Gil Noble, host of the public affairs television program, &quot;Like It Is,&quot; with Ivan van Sertima, Yosef Ben-Jochannan and John Henrik Clarke. Ralph Carter stands at right with an unidentified guest. Credit Damon Winter\/The New York Times \" width=\"550\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-02.jpg 600w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dr-ben-02-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176452559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>Seated, from left, Gil Noble, host of the public affairs television program, &#8220;Like It Is,&#8221; with Ivan van Sertima, Yosef Ben-Jochannan and John Henrik Clarke. Ralph Carter stands at right with an unidentified guest. Credit Damon Winter\/The New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"195\" data-total-count=\"1264\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">And he may have been the last. On March 19, Mr. Ben-Jochannan died, leaving behind 13 children from three marriages and a generation of intellectuals and activists who looked to him for guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"194\" data-total-count=\"1458\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">His life spanned eras. When Mr. Ben-Jochannan was born, Africa was largely under colonial rule, the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"More articles about the Voting Rights Act.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/v\/voting_rights_act_1965\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Voting Rights Act<\/a>\u00a0was a half-century away and the lynching of black Americans was at its peak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"202\" data-total-count=\"1660\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">To some, Mr. Ben-Jochannan was a sage, a self-taught scholar who dedicated his life to uncovering the suppressed history of a people, challenging narratives that had written Africa out of world history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"457\" data-total-count=\"2117\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">In the 1960s, Mr. Ben-Jochannan emerged as prominent figure in Harlem, pushing his anticolonial message to its limit, claiming that the very foundations of Western civilization, including Greek philosophy, Judaism and Christianity, were African in origin. He regularly lectured to crowded auditoriums; he was a disciple of Marcus Garvey and a confidant of Malcolm X, and he appeared on stages with Amiri Baraka, Al Sharpton, James Brown and Louis Farrakhan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"182\" data-total-count=\"2299\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHe is a kind of godfather to all of us in African and Afro-American studies,\u201d Cornel West, the author and activist, said. \u201cI salute him. I was blessed to study at his feet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"271\" data-total-count=\"2570\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">And yet to others Mr. Ben-Jochannan was an impostor and a historical revisionist. The Anti-Defamation League, troubled by books of his with titles like \u201c<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackclassicbooks.com\/we-the-black-jews-yosef-ben-jochannon\/\">We the Black Jews: Witness to the \u2018White Jewish Race\u2019 Myth<\/a>,\u201d stopped just short of calling him an anti-Semite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"113\" data-total-count=\"2683\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">His work, the group once wrote, was \u201cblatantly inaccurate\u201d and \u201cunworthy of any educational institution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"323\" data-total-count=\"3006\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">But Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s legacy is not confined to academic debate. As part of his enterprise, he took thousands of black Americans on tours of the Nile Valley, to visit the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt, where he always took special care to point out the faces on statues and shapes of the figures in hieroglyphs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"224\" data-total-count=\"3230\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Asked in the weeks before his death what drove him to make these repeated pilgrimages to Egypt, Mr. Ben-Jochannan cleared his throat and answered very slowly. \u201cI wanted people to see their faces were the same,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"279\" data-total-count=\"3509\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Ben-Jochannan was born, he claimed, in Ethiopia, to an Ethiopian Jewish father and a Puerto Rican mother (herself from Yemeni Jewish stock). But there is little evidence for that other than his own word; some peers, and even a family member, have privately expressed doubts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"133\" data-total-count=\"3642\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Most accounts agree that wherever he was born, Mr. Ben-Jochannan was raised in the Caribbean and moved to New York City around 1940.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"442\" data-total-count=\"4084\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Harlem at that time was swirling with various strains of black nationalism in the wake of Mr. Garvey\u2019s pan-Africanist movement. This is where Mr. Ben-Jochannan found his voice, holding impromptu lectures in city squares and talks at community centers. He later began teaching at Harlem Prep, an experimental school that opened in 1967, and at Malcolm-King: Harlem College Extension, a two-year liberal arts school, in the 1970s and \u201980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"307\" data-total-count=\"4391\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s self-published books \u2014 around 20 volumes in total, with titles like \u201c<a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"book\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackclassicbooks.com\/africa-mother-of-western-civilization-yosef-ben-jochannon\/\">Africa: Mother of Western Civilization<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blackclassicbooks.com\/black-man-of-the-nile-yosef-ben-jochannon\/\">Black Man of the Nile and His Family<\/a>\u201d \u2014 were collaged with hieroglyphs and hand-drawn maps. Ignored by academia, they became staples in Afrocentric libraries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"216\" data-total-count=\"4607\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI consider Dr. Ben the greatest of the self-trained historians,\u201d said Paul Coates, founder of Black Classics Press, who would later work as Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s publisher. \u201cThere\u2019s still no one like him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"235\" data-total-count=\"4842\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Having already established a reputation among African-Americans, in 1973 Mr. Ben-Jochannan joined Cornell University\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asrc.cornell.edu\/index.cfm\">Africana Studies and Research Center<\/a>\u00a0(at the time only four years old), in Ithaca, N.Y., as a visiting professor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"194\" data-total-count=\"5036\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">He was a distinguished figure at the Africana Center, eventually becoming an adjunct over his 15-year affiliation with Cornell. A painted portrait of Mr. Ben-Jochannan still hangs at the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"349\" data-total-count=\"5385\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">During that period, Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s 15-day trips to Egypt, billed as \u201cDr. Ben\u2019s Alkebu-Lan Educational Tours,\u201d using what he said was an ancient name for Africa, were more popular than ever. They typically ran three times a summer, shuttling as many as 200 people to Africa per season. In 1987, one ticket, all expenses paid, was $1,545.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-6\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"538\" data-total-count=\"5923\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI was always taught that the ancient Egyptians were Caucasian,\u201d said\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ikgculturalresourcecenter.com\/aboutanthony-browder\/\">Anthony T. Browder<\/a>, who traveled with Mr. Ben-Jochannan in the 1980s. But in southern Egypt, Mr. Browder saw a statue of a pharaoh that left him speechless. \u201cThe face is African,\u201d said Mr. Browder, who is the director of the IKG Cultural Resource Center, an organization devoted to the \u201crediscovery and application\u201d of ancient African history. \u201cIt was mind-blowing, evidence of African greatness, thousands of years before our ancestors were enslaved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"265\" data-total-count=\"6188\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">In accounts of his own life, some of Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s embellishments seemed to serve a larger purpose: gesturing to a distant past, establishing a grand narrative and creating a nearly mythic public persona. Others appear to be mere falsehoods or plain deceit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-7\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"485\" data-total-count=\"6673\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Documents from Malcolm-King College and Cornell show Mr. Ben-Jochannan holding a doctorate from Cambridge University in England; catalogs from Malcolm-King College list him holding two master\u2019s from Cambridge. According to Fred Lewsey, a communications officer at Cambridge, however, the school has no record of his ever attending, let alone earning any degree. Similarly, the University of Puerto Rico Mayag\u00fcez, where he also said he had studied, has no records of his enrollment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"93\" data-total-count=\"6766\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s not clear whether employers had ever looked into Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s qualifications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"313\" data-total-count=\"7079\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPeople condemn me for not being an intellectual of the Ph.D. type,\u201d Mr. Ben-Jochannan once said, reacting to questions later raised about his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. While he used the \u201cwhite man\u2019s credential\u201d to go \u201ccertain places,\u201d Mr. Ben-Jochannan said, he refused to \u201clet the white man certify\u201d his work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"352\" data-total-count=\"7431\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Though beyond reproach to most acolytes, Mr. Ben-Jochannan was challenged publicly by classical scholars like Mary Lefkowitz, now a retired professor at Wellesley College. While Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s work was rooted in a desire to undo the damage done by colonial historians, Ms. Lefkowitz said, he was simply offering pseudohistory as an alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"170\" data-total-count=\"7601\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a myth of conspiracy: \u2018White people have taken away history and hidden the truth,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Ms. Lefkowitz said. \u201cBut it\u2019s all more complicated than that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"46\" data-total-count=\"7647\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. Ben-Jochannan seemed unfazed by criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"162\" data-total-count=\"7809\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI don\u2019t care whether white colleagues appreciate me as a historian or not,\u201d he wrote once. \u201cI\u2019m writing for the African person all around the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"235\" data-total-count=\"8044\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">In the next decades, as most of his peers died, Mr. Ben-Jochannan emerged as the elder statesman of Afrocentrism. But like any vanguard, he may have been a victim of his own success, eclipsed by the younger intellectuals he influenced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"226\" data-total-count=\"8270\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThat entire generation of self-trained historians really gave me my first sense of skepticism,\u201d Ta-Nehisi Coates, an editor at The Atlantic, and the son of Paul Coates, Mr. Ben-Jochannan\u2019s publisher, wrote in an email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"373\" data-total-count=\"8643\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhat people like Dr. Ben were saying was, \u2018History is not this objective thing that exists outside of politics,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Mr. Coates wrote. \u201c\u00a0\u2018It exists well within politics, and part of its job has been to position black people in a place of use for white people.\u2019 And that notion of skepticism goes with me in all of my work. It runs through everything I do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/29\/nyregion\/contested-legacy-of-dr-ben-a-father-of-african-studies.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/29\/nyregion\/contested-legacy-of-dr-ben-a-father-of-african-studies.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MARCH 27, 2015 &nbsp; &nbsp; Contested Legacy of Dr. Ben, a Father of African Studies &nbsp; &nbsp; By\u00a0SAM KESTENBAUM &nbsp; Africana studies professor Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan was born on December 31, 1918 in Ethiopia to a Puerto Rican woman, Julia Matta and an Ethiopian man, Kriston ben-Jochannan. 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