The Not-I Bird (After Wole Soyinka's Poem in DEATH AND THE KING'S HORSEMAN)

Artist: Moyo Okediji

Title: The Not-I Bird (After Wole Soyinka’s Poem in DEATH AND THE KING’S HORSEMAN)

Wole Soyinka: The Not-I Bird

“Not-I became the answering-name

Of the restless bird, that little one

Whom Death found nesting in the leaves

When whisper of his coming ran

Before him on the wind. Not-I

Has long abandoned home.