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Author: Kemi Falodun

You Never Know Who the Road Will Bring To You

Posted on 17th November 201719th November 2017 By Kemi Falodun
Sometimes the road stretches ahead, long, wide and straight. Other times it has bends, only revealing the part of itself directly ahead, such that, having navigated the bends, one is soon confronted with the [...]
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A Kind of Separation

Posted on 13th November 201723rd November 2017 By Kemi Falodun
Ilorin On Mount Sobi, a place of solitude and prayer, we meet a woman who tells us she is a Muslim at home, and a Christian on the mountain. No one knows when I [...]
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Notes on Seeing

Posted on 3rd November 201715th November 2017 By Kemi Falodun
1. Walking along the roads of Ahmadu Bello University campus in Zaria, we see a poster of a popular Nigerian actress on the wall. What is that like, asks my friend, to see an [...]
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Life Pulses Through the Quiet Too

Posted on 29th October 201710th November 2017 By Kemi Falodun
Looking out through the window, the land is flat and dry as far as my eyes can see. We are on our way to Sokoto, driving down the jagged road that leads to Kebbi [...]
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Body in Transit

Posted on 21st October 201729th October 2017 By Kemi Falodun
Standing here, an image of a moment in my childhood comes to me. I must have been seven or eight, some of us children—both boys and girls—were told to go take our baths in [...]
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Borders Within 2017: The Second Trans-Nigerian Road Trip October 8 – November 16 2017

Posted on 16th October 201716th October 2017 By Kemi Falodun
For 46 days in 2016, Invisible Borders travelled across Nigeria photographing and writing on the road. The aim was simple: To map diversity across regions, states and ethnic formations in post-colonial Nigeria. These artists, [...]
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Artist Statement — “I’m interested in how people come into their various identities.”

Posted on 13th October 201716th October 2017 By Kemi Falodun
As I read the last sentence of My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, I took a deep breath, stepped outside, and with my hands in the air, eyes closed, face lifted to [...]
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