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    31. sij 2019.

    "Unless we have discovered our roots and are rooted in the lores and mores of our people,we are in danger of a false modernization in which we might gain this world only to lose our souls as Nigerians" -Professor Biobaku 1976.

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  2. 30. sij

    This seemingly 'spiritual' advice spurred the Koola Lobitos,and it's second tradition was born on May 4,1965,in Lagos, Nigeria.Source: The Koola Lobitos Resurrects Page 34 - Dis Fela Sef!!! (The Legend Untold) by Benson Idonije Grandfather.

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  3. 30. sij

    But you want to consider it's cultural relevance and commercial viability. Fela, I want you to go back to the highlife you started In London. That's where your future is"..

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  4. 30. sij

    As soon as we arrived she summoned us to the living room. "Fela Manager", she called out "This music you are playing is good, and I know that you enjoy it greatly.

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  5. 30. sij

    Mrs. Ransome-Kuti had invited Fela and I to Abeokuta. She had visited Lagos the day before and would have spoken to us, probably wanted us to recognize the seriousness and import of the matter at hand by making us travel the distance from Lagos to Abeokuta.

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  6. 30. sij

    Fela Ransome Kuti. Probably during the Koola Lobitos Era. Circa:1960s "As providence would have it, a meeting Fela and I had with his mother, Mrs. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, in November 1964 was to alter the course of events and the shape of his music.

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  7. 28. sij

    To the left, the priest framed by the door mixes the potions he will use on the children. Every inch of space is filled by people busily performing various tasks, their large eyes and facial scarification matching traditional Yoruba ideals of beauty.

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  8. 28. sij

    To end the cycle, mothers consult special divination priests, who use ceremonies and medicines to convince the children to remain in the community. The predominant figure in this work is such a mother, who holds one of her abiku twins while the other sleeps on her back.

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  9. 28. sij

    surviving child of seven sets of twins. The Yoruba’s are both blessed with an unusually high incidence of twins and cursed with high infant mortality, a fact which they explain with the concept of abiku, or children born to die shortly thereafter.

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  10. 28. sij

    depict an important Yoruba ceremony. In it, a mother consults with a priest to keep her abiku twins in this world, rather than dying and being reborn to her over and over. Twins Seven Seven was intimately familiar with the ritual he depicted, being the sole

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  11. 28. sij

    Healing of Abiku Children is a piece created by the Nigerian artist Twins Seven-Seven in 1973, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. It consists of a large wooden plaque intricately carved and dyed with pigment to

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  12. 25. sij

    Benin Bronzes: 123 years after, Will they ever see their homeland again? A article. Read here-

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    24. sij

    Latest Interview on the Dashboard. My guest is Founder of ASIRI Magazine , Oludamola Adebowale Please watch and leave a comment.

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    24. sij

    Latest Dashboard Interview with OJAY now out: Guest: Oludamola Adebowale , Founder - ASIRI Magazine Watch:

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  15. 21. sij

    In the pictures, the new graduates mill around among faculty members, and friends and relatives in front of Trenchard Hall." [Elisofon field notes, August 1959-December 1959] Source : Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives.

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  16. 21. sij

    after the congregation for the reception of graduates, which was held in Trenchard Hall as part of the Foundation Day celebrations on November 17, 1959. We would call it a graduation ceremony. This was the Eleventh Foundation Day anniversary, and 136 students graduated.

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  17. 21. sij

    Eleventh Foundation Day anniversary at University College, faculty members and new graduates in front of Trenchard Hall, Ibadan, Nigeria. Circa: 1959 Original title reads, "Scene outside Trenchard Hall at University College, Ibadan,

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  18. 21. sij

    complete' as a work of art, achieving that for which it was created." [Drewal H. J., Pemberton J. III, Rowland Abiodun, 1989: Yoruba. Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought; The Carvers of the Northeast. Harry N. Abrams Inc.]. Source: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives

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  19. 21. sij

    which the life of a Yoruba town depends. While an Epa carving may be placed on a shrine throughout most of the year receiving annual offerings and prayers from the elders of the house in which he resides, only when it 'comes out' does it, from a Yoruba pont of view, become '

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  20. 21. sij

    The headdress images a celebration of Iyabeji ('Mother of Twins'). "Epa and Elefon festivals are held throughout northern and southern Ekiti towns. Both terms vary regionally but they always refer to the same festival phenomenon - the celebration of social roles upon

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  21. 21. sij

    Eliot Elisofon and cameraman George Bracher filming renowned woodcarver Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, Ibadan. Circa:1970 The photograph depicts Eliot Elisofon and cameraman George Bracher filming renowned woodcarver Lamidi Olonade Fakeye standing by Epa headdress he carved.

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