…But We Hungry
Title: …But We Hungry
Acrylic on canvas
2021
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Title: …But We Hungry
Acrylic on canvas
2021
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:
Visitors From the Distant Past
They landed in three large pods.
“They look exactly as we envisaged,” one of them said, probing me.
“Bring him inside the pod.” Said another.
They took me inside the pod.
I looked around.
Anthonia Nneji has done me again.
I am speechless.
I must write her a poem.
My patient is dead. I pulled out the stethoscope, and thermometer, took the temperature, measured the…
Work in progress for a painting titled GOLD COIN..
I turn the same painting upside down, as Iya Afilaka instructed me. And it still remains legible.
Why?
Because we have paid Iba (homage)
to the vagina that is turned
upside down, yet
does not drip