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 Wedding

X · àlụ́lụ́ · marriage

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Over time and across cultures, the celebration of a marriage has remained a constant. Customs shift, rituals evolve, and every gathering carries its own atmosphere, yet the central gesture endures: people assembling to witness and honour the joining of two lives.

the witnesses

No witnesses yet. Be the first to stand with them.

6 of 20 sold · drag to pan · scroll to zoom · tap to study · hold a face to draw your family

20 characters · 14 bonds

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.

The Wedding — Twenty Faces in One Frame — Anthony Azekwoh, page loaded