Ìbàdí Àrán (Duchess).
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Ìbàdí Àrán (Duchess).
Medium: silicon on paper
Date: 2020
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Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Ìbàdí Àrán (Duchess).
Medium: silicon on paper
Date: 2020
OLÓDÙMARÈ is what I have written here, using the Yoruba alphabet that I just designed. It…
Don’t wait for mama or papa to die before you start celebrating them.You know you will kill cows for their funeral ceremonies. Now, get a goat while mama is alive
The Massacre of General Okoro
Is it funny
or merely coincidental
That, as they killed her son,
the mother was dreaming
She was breastfeeding him?
The mighty and resplendent Iya Iroko
tree had remained rooted
to the same spot
near the Oba river
for three hundred and sixty-four seasons
watching the ways of humans
from the viewpoint of a plant
under which folks sat
The beginning of time.
Is it a house?
Or a kolanut?
Is this thing an insect inside the mystery of life?
There is no fear except the one we make up.
The fear we harbor is us.
On this planet, there is nothing to lose.