It has been over two months since the debut of my first multimedia installation took place at White Space in Ikoyi, Lagos and the experience still feels unreal. One minute you are neck deep in planning and the next you are uninstalling and preparing for the next city. Here are some photo highlights from the […]
It would be my absolute pleasure to invite you to my first ever mixed media installation “Dirty Laundry” supported by Ford Foundation. This installation is an immersive experience interconnecting personal narratives, histories, experiences, and imaginaries as a form of catharsis for me and the viewers. Featuring poems screen printed on canvas hanging from laundry lines, […]
“Reclaiming the Tongue” is a video series curated by journalist and poet, Wana Udobang. For the series, Wana enlisted the help of prolific food bloggers and scholars, Ozoz Sokoh (Kitchen Butterfly), Neema Syovata (Modern African Table) and Iquo Ukoh (1Q Food Platter), to explore the complex ways in which history, geography, memory, colonization, relationships and more, become part of a dish’s recipe.
I recently got to work with Abiola Sobo of Suss productions to put together new visuals for my poem “The Revolution”. This poem came to me at a time when I was deeply in need of affirmation
Qudus Onikeku is always a fascinating person to converse with. He often claims he isn’t an activist but following him on social media tells a completely different story. Qudus is certainly one of Nigeria’s great dance exports but what i particularly love about his work is how he is constantly seeking to contextualise dance […]
Victor Ehikhamenor has to be one of the most dynamic and prolific visual artists i have gotten the opportunity to get close to. And i almost forgot very stylish too. Victor is a painter, sculptor,photographer,writer and satirist. His work has been known and characterised by his large scale labyrinths which has been described in […]
I don’t know what it is but Ireti Doyle has to be one of my favourite people in the world. I am not quite sure if it is her fierce honesty or unapologetic vulnerability, i can’t seem to put my finger on it. The first time i interviewed her was a few years ago […]
In the second episode of Culture Diaries, i chat with fellow poet Titilope Sonuga. I have often referred to her poetry as very visceral and picturesque. In recent times, she if fast becoming every girls favourite poet exploring themes that traverse everyday human emotions and that all so interesting transition from girlhood to womanhood. […]
I have been contemplating ending this series of mine which i have enjoyed making so much but fortunately despite all the challenges i never give up without a fight so i have decided not to hang my boots up just yet. So here goes the story. As part of the British Council’s UK/NG season […]
So as a lover of all things art and culture, i thought it was time to have a go at a video interview series and thus Culture Diaries was born. I have only been able to shoot six episodes as a pilot season but touch wood i will get the resources i need to […]