Orò Ilé
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Orò Ilé
Medium: terracotta
Date: 2010
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Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Orò Ilé
Medium: terracotta
Date: 2010
Jetlagged.
From Heathrow Airpot to Austin Airport.
Teacher: Nigeria means NIGGER AREA. Spell it.
Student: I-T.
Teacher: River Niger means NIGGER river. Spell it.
Student: I-T.
Ghana was named Gold Coast.
The people were smart enough
Àkòdì Òrìṣà artists painting the outside fence at Ile Ife, Nigeria.
The downfall of a man is not the end of his wife.
Make una softly-softly for end-of-year parties o.
PART OF THE BEAT
Only you can kill yourself,
hiding your game in the shelf
Too many die
living a life of lie.
Too many fellows live
but can’t survive
You must go anyway
but don’t go away
Place your feet on the ground
while you’re still around
The Akodi Orisa that I constructed in 2011, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria. It is the model for the one in Ile Ife.