NAME YOUR TEACHER
NAME YOUR TEACHER
Who taught you
that you must breathe?
that you must eat?
that you must crawl?
that you must walk?
that you must talk?
that you must listen?
Who taught you
that your culture is inferior?
Who taught you
to abandon your indigenous values?
Who taught you
to prefer the faiths of your colonizers?
Who taught you
that Esu is a devil?
that Ifa is a liar?
that your ancestors were primitive?
Who taught you
that your grandfather was uneducated?
Who taught you
that your traditional medicines are fake?
that your Yoruba language is only a vernacular?
that your Yoruba nation is a tribe?
that loving your culture is tribalism?
that you are a Nigerian?
Who taught you
that you must lie?
that you must love?
Who taught you to think?
Picture:
After learning of the end of the Donald Trump era, I got the energy to complete this painting titled “Wole Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation II, November 2020
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