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.

The Deathless

MM · ógwùrùgwù · rainbow

7 works

Seven figures named for the seven colours, and the long dusk that takes them. The Red Man, the Orange Father, the Yellow Queen, the Jade Woman, the Blue Boy, the Indigo Man, the Violet Daughter.

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The Red ManThe Orange FatherThe Yellow QueenThe Jade WomanThe Blue BoyThe Indigo ManThe Violet Daughter
7 works

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. Choose one and it opens where it stands.

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