JUST BEFORE DAWN

JUST BEFORE DAWN

Too many people don taya for dis obodo Naija, I swear.

Our suffer don do!

Kole Omotoso wrote JUST BEFORE DAWN in 1988.

Just before dawn, people say, it gets really dark.

It is now nearly forty years after Omotoso thought the dawn would break on Nigeria, but no, it gets darker every second in Naija .

A picture of Moyo Okediji (Picture shows me painting jẹ́jẹ́ly in his studio

The Last Dance.

The Last Dance.

Adetola Wewe is working in my studio gallery on his last painting as the first resident fellow of the University of African Art at Austin.

He is concluding a one-month stay, and has produced an incredible number of paintings during this short period.

He will leave for Houston during the week, from where he plans to fly back home.

Today, he will share his residency experience with the students of the University of Texas at Austin, in a course titled “Introduction to African Art,” taught by Moyo Okediji.