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GOOD FAKE NEWS

ByMoyo Okediji

Photo: still in solitary confinement at home.

I’m not taking the vaccine.

Not yet.

Waiting to see what happens.

The lack of sunlight is depleting the melanin shield of my skin.

But I take Vitamin D supplements to compensate for a lack of access to sunlight.

Last night I was looking for my pet elephant and discovered it was hiding inside my beard.

That’s fake news.

Good fake news.

the picture shows the youngest artist at the Akodi Orisa Center in Ile Ife.

Two New African Proverbs

ByMoyo Okediji

Two New African Proverbs:

1. The same people who place their knee on your neck will also be the first to ask “Why can’t you breathe?”

2. The same people who are causing your sadness will also be the first to ask “Why can’t you laugh?”

(Adapted from the Yoruba proverb, “Ẹ́ni tí ó bá sọ ni di olóríburúkú ni ó kọ́kọ́ má a ń fi bú ni:

My edited book on the work of Dotun Popoola is now out.

My edited book on the work of Dotun Popoola is now out.

ByMoyo Okediji

My edited book on the work of Dotun Popoola is now out.

It looks so magnificent, like a grande Egungun performance.

The publisher says it goes for 50,000 naira per copy.

This hyper-colorful hardcover book that is larger than a royal Agbada arrived at my doorsteps for the New Year.

It is the most beautiful book I have ever seen.

Congrats to the wonderful art historians, Kunle Filani, Tolulope Sobowale, Olusegun Fajuyigbe, and Kehinde Adepegba, who contributed powerful essays to the book.

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