The Book of Lagos
The autobiography of a city.
Everything I make is one book. A story of characters and gods, of saints and sinners, of witches and paintings and sculptures. Each chapter is a world of its own, and they are siblings rather than a sequence. The book is the frame. The city is the binding.
- Children of the Sun
- The Deathless
- The Brothers
- The Wedding
- Lagos Man!
- A chapter not yet announced
- Witches of Auchi
- The Auntys
Eight chapters standing at one radius around ámá, the word for a town, a city, a nation. Nothing joins them, because nothing should. The order is not numeric: the city remembers out of time.
Children of the Sun
A cosmic mythos. Sol and Luna at the centre, twenty-five children named for stars by proximity to the Sun. Twenty-seven portraits in total — the archive that lives in the sky.
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An exercise in togetherness. A temporary community formed around a single vow. Bride, Groom, families, staff, wildcards. Twenty faces in the same frame. The archive that lives on the ground.
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Three sons of Odùduwà. Aláàrá, Àjẹ́rọ̀, Ọ̀ràngún. Three brothers walked out from Ilé-Ifẹ̀ and each became a king of his own land. Three crowns from one root.
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