Ahọn Dudu
Ahọn Dudu
This project is a self-reflective piece of my own encounters of what seems to me, to be a lack of black communal culture here in Vancouver. It is also a depiction of the barriers I experienced within a community I was a part of when a disturbing unwillingness to create space for black (us) sufficed. Ahọn Dudu is me, a character in my stories and my Yorùbá subjectivity that lives and exists in Vancouver and together we will lead you through the barriers we have uncovered and experienced . We will do this through performance, dance, garment construction, poetry and Yorùbá storytelling.
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‘if slavery were a crown…’
‘If Slavery Were A Crown…’ is a project that radically imagines befitting depictions of the black body- through my Yorùbá eyes . It tells the story of a slave who is on his way to Kingship.
What would it look like if the black body was seen as royalty?
What would it look like to Oluwasola Kehinde Olowo-Ake and, how would it look through her Yorùbá subjectivity?
Photographer & Videographer: Grace Edu
Photo Editor: Ammy Francis