Waka Queen

As you view this work, it kind of mocks you. Then it sneaks up on you and you realize there is actually a bunch of people on there that you never saw in the beginning.

I want to preserve a part of our culture that addresses our superiority as Nigerians, as Yorubas and as Africans, I think that’s what led my path to the residency. It is a collective responsibility but I am playing my own parts by using my art to preserve the heritage of iconic contributions to our uniqueness. Because I fear that a day would come when a foreigner would rebrand, for example, Fuji music to our children’s children and they wouldn’t even know it’s stolen from their origin. Why? Because we do not keep our history alive!