Omidan (Damsel)
Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Omidan (Damsel)
Medium: terracotta
Date: 2010
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Artist: Moyo Okediji
Title: Omidan (Damsel)
Medium: terracotta
Date: 2010
Ọ̀RÌYÀ
Yà mí lójú n ríran
Ọ̀rìyà
Kí n ríran rówó
Kí n ríran rọ́mọ
Ọ̀rìyà
Yà mí lójú n ríran
Ọ̀rìyà
Seven phallic comb
Have you heard di news?
Dem say PDP don marry APC.
Na Sunny Ade and Eddy Okonta play for their wedding.
Wot a wonderful gofment!
Life is sweet like bread and butter.
Another beautiful day to enjoy the sweetness of sunlight.
How does one translate ÌKÚNLẸ̀ ABIYAMỌ into English, yet retain the picture that that term conveys in the original Yoruba context?
The word “childbirth,” which is the direct translation of ÌKÚNLẸ̀ ABIYAMỌ does not give the picture of the kneeling woman, giving birth to a child.
The Farmer of Colors
Harvesting a field
of chromatic linguistics
is akin to a dance:
first you must hold
your canvas like a partner
and place layers of
harmonious tinctures over
the picture plane.
The most wonderful women in the world–Nigerian women–at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
Smart beyond compare, the beauty of Nigerian women slowly grows on you, though for me, it is always love at first sight.