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ByMoyo Okediji

PUBLIC PROPERTY

***This is a story that my Luo friend told me. She says it’s from among the Luo people of Kenya.

In Yoruba we call it “Àǹfààní àdúgbò.”

Please help me translate Àǹfààní àdúgbò to Oyinbo.

Wife 1: Our husband has not yet returned home?

Wife 2: No o. It is now 11 pm.

Wife 1: Where did he go?

Wife 2: I don’t know o.

Wife 1: The way our husband uses our plantain outside this home….

Wife 2: …we thank God it’s not like soap, otherwise, it would all be finished by now.

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or a living.

As an art historian, I talk for a living.

Politicians, lawyers, teachers and other professionals also make a living from talking.

But many people actually have to make something to earn a living.

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

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

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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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