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We did a script and asked Sterling Henderson to read for us. We love it. It didn't win. Some strange African o Anansi type submission by Levee Rodriguez won. Good for him. lol! Hopefully he can use it. Who knows. Is how these things go. Whatever. Competition in Trinidad and Tobago make absolutely no sense. But we love this work. There's breathing space. Sterling's voice is nice against the music and the words doing it for we! Make a scene, shoot your reality! If we talk about it too much someone may say we bitter so... we have to stay quiet but... whoo we laughed when we heard that boy won and we listened to what he submitted! lol! And if we say nepotism everybody up in arms ... whaaaaateeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvver... Trinbagonians will kill we and we making a way for weself... we need to get out of this place. It dead bad.
Mak'em Liars
Imagine trying to write about Conformity bias, Collective Illusion, Labelling theory and mental health in Trinidad and Tobago by comparing it to zombification or talking about propaganda in the space and boop! being attacked by the zombies severally!! STRANGE LIFE WE'VE BEEN GIVEN OUI!!! STRANGE LIFE!!
These three events are happening tomorrow night. We've wanted to perform at the fiesta plaza for a minute; we've wanted to connect with the LGBT for a minute and we like going to Anthony's show. We missed it last month. They are all starting at the same time and we wonder if we can make all. They are all happening in the woodbrook vicinity. The Open mic session at Anthony's Cari-Jazz will be at Kafe Blue on wrightson road, then we can head over to movietowne and hopefully we get to perform early and then walk over to st. james' side and do the Pride Karaoke at OWP. We don't have a flash drive so we foresee problems at movietowne especially but we're going! ESU said give praise for three years "things will come" and opportunities have been manifesting. We ain even talking about Scouting for Talent onn the 5th August or nothing just... yeah... things are happening. So strange how the spirit moves. WISH WE LUCK!!! ELEGGUA GBA WA O! ASE EDUMARE!
Review of IFE IYOKU,THE TALE OF IMADEYUNUAGBON by Kwasi Shade.
Review of IFE IYOKU,THE TALE OF IMADEYUNUAGBON by Kwasi Shade.
"Obatala's patient suffering is the well known aesthetics of the saint." Wole Soyinka, Fourth Stage.
The return of Obatala is not what you'd expect and in "IFE-IYOKU, THE TALE OF IMADEYUNUAGBON" by Ekpeke Oghenechovwe Donald, the virtue of the king of the sky is creatively wielded to interrogate, at first glance, the value of community. Global or otherwise. Yet at the center of this story is a delicate want to reconcile western and African conceptual schemes. To determine, perhaps, what is Truth.
We are first presented with a community that thrives on coalescence; persons are conjoined by a sense of duty. This is underscored by the Weaver, the mother of the community, who recounts the tale of a great war among the world's greatest nations which devastates an innocent Afrika. The surviving Afrikans who gather in Ilé-Ifé, Afrika, go to Obatala, who, in turn, goes to his father, the Almighty God, to ask for help. God gives his son his DNA. Obatala returns to Ilé-Ifé with God's DNA which he blesses with his DNA. The Afrikans consume the Godly DNA and also use it to purge Ilé-Ifé of the effects of the war. It strengthens them and fortifies them in a hidden community.
Seeing the rest of the world in suffering, the merciful sculptor of men, Obatala, shares what remainder of the Godly DNA there is with the rest of the world.
*ONE GOD, MANY PEOPLE. ALL MEN EQUAL UNDER GOD. ACTS 17:25 "... And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth…"
The storyteller ends her history lesson with a promise made to the faithful and innocent; Obatala will return when they are most in need. And so introduces the primary argument, (Immanence versus transcendence) which comes too with a revelation; the community is Obatala. Obatala is their duty to survive.
The patriarchal figure, the father of the community, with little to no faith, misunderstanding his duty as self preservation, exploiting the sense of duty felt by the community, betrays Obatala. He exerts control thinking himself more equal than others and engenders this sensibility in the community.
The Palm wine reference signaling Ooni as Obatala's mistake is especially cute or poignant.
When Imadeyunuagbon faces him in the Forest of Fears and becomes Obatala, she knows herself and in knowing herself, is strong enough to invite the community into her person.
A compelling and nuanced narrative, the modern Orisa, Imade, champions the author's interrogation well. She asks: What is duty? What is one's duty to the community or Obatala/(God)? What is one's duty to self?
Our duty is Truth. Our duty to community is our duty to self: to be who we are meant to be.
Oba tala iwo Baba!
REJECTIONS LIST
So far we've been rejected by:
TILTING AXIS FELLOWSHIP FILMTT AD CHALLENGE FUNDACION BOTIN ALPINE FELLOWSHIP LILY BOOKS ALICE YARD BEST VILLAGE We is an introvert. We find our things interesting. People don't apparently. Oh well.
On another note -- we got robbed on Monday morning and we feel like shit about it. We had a feeling that we ignored. Or misread. We always fighting with we self and it is so draining to be around normal people. You're always fighting them. ACP EU CREATIVE CARIBBEAN CHICKEN AND EGG SUNDANCE GRIST BKLYN SHORTS WASAFIRI CARIBBEAN WRITER BAOBAB VELIZ CAVE CANEM THE MAINE REVIEW CAKE CREATIVE CARIBBEANTALES CENTRAL BANK CREATIVE RESIDENCY PROGRAM ALEX BROWN (MIGHT BE ON SHORTLIST) ECIAF YOUTH HOMESTEAD PROGRAM We just submitted things all over. We go have to leggo what it means for someone or something living in this dream to thrive.
We have offers ongoing:
potential teaching position potential partnership with InvesTT CURRENTLY PURSUING SENSE I with MIC IT US EMBASSY OPEN CALL
