Registered Collection: Lere’s Bag

Registered Collection: Name of Collection: Lere’s Bag Items: Resolute or Dissolute Collection: Dissolute* General Collection: Fatunla-Adesina, Ibadan Gens Entrusted: Fatunla-Adesina Custodian: Not Disclosed Ordering Principle: Miscellany of Relevance (Sociology, Literary Arts, Politics) TITLES/ITEMS Granta: Sex – Spring 2010 Clinical Blues – Dami Ajayi A Woman’s Body is a Country – Dami Ajayi The African Charter… Continue reading Registered Collection: Lere’s Bag

Blessed Memory

Any life lived under false imprisonment from the 1500s until the year 2000, shall be followed by the respectful statement, in full or abbreviated: of blessed memory or o.b.m – so, for example, Phyllis Wheatley, o.b.m.

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Definition of Black

The definition of blackness is based on the lowest and highest common denominator, namely the ‘one shot’ rule established by the terrorism of white supremacy in the United States of America, and the 8-rock principle of Toni Morrison’s imaginary, and its anchor in the reality of Bambara complexions, as well as that of the Dinka,… Continue reading Definition of Black

Sign of Fealty

Proceeding from the rights of wo/man, OMOWA do not bow to any power except God and their parents and seniors within their Gens measured generationally by decades – for all other rank of authority where a bow previously held sway, particularly aristocratic ranks, the following shall suffice or be the limit to satisfy legal, customary… Continue reading Sign of Fealty

Titles of Rank

The titles of rank: The highest honour is to the eldest mother or grandmother in the house, and shall remain so until females no longer give birth via a nine month process of labour. The second honour is to any hereditary or initially hereditary or aristocratic title created or granted or in use after the… Continue reading Titles of Rank

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Fixed Gens

Acknowledging 1946 and the promulgation of the UN declaration of human rights as a new beginning, but cognisant of the necessity of order within the disorder of daily and registered life, it is our considered opinion that a fixed gens should consist of a male and female derived name from marriages contracted via a state… Continue reading Fixed Gens

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Moving Out

We are moving out of the house of ‘Aku’ as the organising phoneme of our greetings into the house of ‘Aki’ and ‘Ema’ as the organising phoneme of our greetings. So, instead of ‘Aku a fo ju ba’ we say – ‘Aki a fo ju ba’ – instead of ‘Eku e wu o mo’ we… Continue reading Moving Out