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Afolabi Damilare’s portrait of Moyo Okediji.
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Afolabi Damilare’s portrait of Moyo Okediji.
Thanks for this wonderful gift, Afolabi
Dear Kicking Fetus
For Saidiya Hartman***
Why kick your mother
so hard, so relentless
right in the center
of her tender navel?
Is there something
you know about life,
about the impious ways
Yoruba Numbers: Ení, Èjì Ẹ̀ta
Yoruba culture, using the Ifa dimension, is quite visual.
I therefore designed a Yoruba writing system that is essentially visual.
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Omidan (Damsel)
Medium: terracotta
Date: 2010
Moyo Okediji
Title: Excavations of the First Dynasty
Medium: acrylic on canvas
date: 2021
Day and night, for three weeks.
And finally, it is done.
HOUSE OF THE HEAD: ÒRÙLÉ ORÍ
The latest addition to the Àkòdì Òrìṣà
is the ÒRÙLÉ ORÍ,
the House of the Head.
Órí is the most important òrìṣà
in Yoruba divinity.