Tag Archives: Segun Akinlolu

Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.

I am like a woodbit / with motions diverse adrift / in the ocean so vast / uncharted, / endless waves and no berthing cove. / in this broth of tides so strong, / storms so violent…

Don’t tell me of blood, sage, / What I have seen I cannot forget. / Tell me of no war, / Of my private ones I can swear. / Spare me the gory details, / It’s a shame that men should die…