•Multidisciplinary Artist + Designer •Afrofuturist •Hogwart dropout •Reality Bender 💭Fusing Worlds
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Here is a short 🧵 on My genesis collection “MAKTUB”
Maktub is an Arabic word that means “It is written”. I came across it in Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” and it perfectly encapsulates the collection.
MAK TUB
I don’t know who told Nigerians books must always be true, but books, like any information or knowledge, can be false, misinform, contain disinformation, or mix half-truths.
Orunmila isn’t academically regarded as a philosopher or as having a school of philosophy; he has teachings and stories in the Ifá corpus and oral history, with no school of philosophy or anrecorded influence or continuation of it, like Socrates.
The best time to plant a tree was decade(s) ago, the better time to do it is Now.
Look, I get that people are pissed about this thing—there’s a lot to be mad about. But I was raised by a civil servant, and time and again, I’ve learned that systems collapse gradually, not all at once.
Nobody shows up on their first day of work and decides to destroy archives or anything. Quite often, it’s a series of small decisions, small things we let fester here and there. Culture is whatever a system rewards or punishes.
But the thing about Nigeria is that while we’re always late to one party (the things we’ve lost are lost), I think it’s important to know we’re also always early to another.
So much has been lost, but so much can still be done. And it doesn’t have to be big things; just pick the little things.
For example, if someone in your family was a teenager when Nigeria became independent, statistically, they might be dead in a decade or way less. Sit with them and press record; they have so much to say, and so few people willing to listen. Just listen and press record. In whatever language they understand, no matter how little your understanding of it.
Keep the family album. Use your phone to photograph them. Keep the tapes.
Much of what our civilisation learned about fighting COVID-19 came from what we learned about the Spanish Flu of 1918: a mix of official records documenting death rates, etc., and personal correspondence that captured the experience of living through it.
Personal history is family history is national history.
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Dámi Diamond retweeted
Faux Middle class Nigerians will tell poor people not to sell their votes coz 'don't be stupid and naive', but they're in marketing agencies that print billboards and publish radio and TV ads for the same politicians for millions, coz 'that's practical and a job naa'
Dámi Diamond retweeted
On this, Ifa says:
Isansa meji ni ki ara won jee jee je
A difa fun Egbe Aye
A bu fun ti Orun
Borokinni Orun kii je ki ti Aye o te
Borokinni Orun e gba wa
Ti Aye n te lo
It is two absconders who greet each other unobtrusively
Cast Ifa for the Egbe Aye
As well as the Egbe Orun
Comrades in the celestial space prevents the ones on Earth from disgrace
Comrades in the celestial space, come to our aid
The ones on Earth are about to be disgraced
Una
You for share the picture of the vials na not empty pali
Even for pharmacy they’d verify & verify your prescription before they sell you pent
While I was taking my morning walk today, I saw a mallam selling Pentazocine injections.
This is an opioid, a dangerous drug that should be sold only in a proper pharmacy or hospital with a prescription.
The discussion about it being original or fake is another topic entirely. How did we descend to the point where people hawk opioid injections? States have to step up and create their laws to cover the gaps in NAFDAC.
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