Yours truly
Yours truly at the Ohio State University to give a lecture on Friday.
Courtesy Dr. Adeleke Adeeko
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ANIMAL FARM IN BELGIAN KONGO
Title: ANIMAL FARM IN BELGIAN KONGO
acrylic on canvas, 2020
I’ve been working on this painting for one month.
The journey has been long
on a bumpy road
Who Is Your Body?
Who Is Your Body? Your body Is the greatest miracle happening now It is not dying…
In and Out
In and Out
It may be real hard
to get in
It will be much harder
to get out
it is typically easier
to get in
It is typically never easy
one of the paintings I just discovered in my garage.
This is one of the paintings I just discovered in my garage.
The painting celebrates Robert Hayden’s poem, “Middle Passage.”
It is a really long poem.
The painting focuses on this excerpt:
“That Crew and Captain lusted with the comeliest
of the savage girls kept naked in the cabins;
that there was one they called The Guinea Rose
and they cast lots and fought to lie with her: ”
The character across the floor of the ship being whipped to consent is the lady called Guinea Rose in the poem.
DAYS OF YORE
Those days when I was much younger, I explored photography.Here are some shots of Jummai, then a great model from Northern Nigeria, now a rising woman activist and politician.
My patience.
My patient is dead. I pulled out the stethoscope, and thermometer, took the temperature, measured the…
