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Ilé ọba tójó ẹwà ló bùsi

When a King’s palace is burnt down, a more beautiful one is built.


When asked to capture what The-54 means, I return to this, one of my favourite Yoruba proverbs. When a King’s palace is burnt down, a more beautiful one is built. Experiencing the world as an African is multi-faceted and visceral. Your identity is magnified, re-pacakged, re-purposed to fit narrative thats serve the global domain. But that erasure obsc

If I had to capture what The-54 means, I return to this Yorùbá proverb.

When a king’s palace is burnt down, a more beautiful one is built.

Others may have obscured our perception, embodied our cultures,

When told from elsewhere,
Africa is a headline.
When told from us,
Africa is texture.

Others may have obscured our rhythms, our histories, our culture, our authenticity. I pray not for the fall of something - but for the rise of our own stories as a turning point for humanity.

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