I remember it so well when I first figured out that the days of the week were actually a system. I was in Primary 1.
For the longest time, I used to wonder how people decided what day it was. Like, how did everybody agree that today should be Sunday? Was there a secret meeting at night that I kept missing? (It sounds funny now, but I actually tried staying up late a few times to join this mysterious “meeting.” Sadly, I always slept off.)
If you asked me, “What day is today?” I’d just guess, and I’d mostly get it wrong. Some even called me olodo.
Then one day I decided to really pay attention. To study the days as they came.
Saturday became my benchmark. That one I was sure of. No school. Then I discovered Friday came just before it. The only school day we closed at 1pm. Sunday came right after Saturday because that’s when we went to church.
And Monday? Monday was the fresh one. The beginning. The restart. Till today, I still believe Monday is the first day of the week, no matter what anybody says.
But Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday? Pure confusion. That was the ghetto. The real struggle. I spent about three or four weeks doing my personal experiment to figure them out. I can’t even remember exactly how I cracked it, but I did sha. That’s when I realised the days are actually a cycle.
PS: That Solomon Grundy rhyme almost scattered my brain.
See ehn, the only days I attended events like weddings or burials with my family were Saturdays, the day we didn’t go to school. But Solomon Grundy got married on a Wednesday?
For a while, I concluded that Saturday must be Wednesday. And the scariest part? I lowkey started watching Saturdays closely, half-expecting to hear news that someone had died, just to match the Solomon Grundy cycle.
Quite a crazy experience, but here I am. Nowadays it's different. It's some grown-up shii we're handling. Heart cut, heart through. Thank God always for the thought process and for regulating the emotions!
Last week, I was in a space, where one of the biggest and most important performances in and out of Nigeria is being cooked, more updates soon.
#KapVillage #Terrapolis #art
#photography
If you're in Ìkòròdú or around its axis, join us this Saturday (16th of May) for an intimate screening and discussion of these powerful short films by some amazing Nigerian filmmakers.
"RantiRonu" by @adekunleblue
"Dead Flowers, Red Roses" by @tolulopeakande_
and the AMVCA-nominated "Telephone" by @fimisinuola .
Click link in bio to register.
#film_screening #ikorodu #nigeria #nollywood
I’ve been moving.
I moved from stage lights to screen glow, chasing stories that are worthy to be told in the best way I could.
And truth be told, uncertainty has always been the fuel. And that has forced my approach to be experimental, always!
Now, this is another story! And it has beckoned on me to go another route entirely. And It’s important that I go! I must! And this story... it must be told. It’s daring. It’s loud. And certainly, It’s uncertain on purpose.
I’m pushing it further, into intensity, into risk, into something that might break you ?...me ?
You’ve not seen me in this light before. This is me notifying you.
This is my first outing as a performance artist.
Ladies and gentlemen!
Welcome to another shift.
#Performance_Art #Nigeria #Art #Africa
CONTEXT: I was in a two-week writers’ retreat "the Yaanga Vanguard Retreat" by J. Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History which seamlessly blended into Afropolis Lagos ’26. 🙂↔️
It’s been an amazing experience. I shared space with a cohort of brilliant thinkers and writers I now get to call them sharp, honest, and incredibly cool.
My BIG gratitude goes to Qudus Onikeku, Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, Kunle Afolayan, Roli O'tsemaye, OluTimehin Kukoyi, Mr Lani Aisida, Vector, Earnest Jesuyemi, Othuke Ominiabohs, Jumoke Sanwo, Aisha Adamu Augie, and the entire team at the J. Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History.
CAPTION: Slide 4 + 5 ☄️(you get?🦥)
#art #culture #writing #film #here
L’dele is a sound preacher of Art!… whenever you shrug against the inner aesthetics that can make you create, he goes all out with different verses to revive your soul.
If you're swift, follow us!
Let's go to BLACK MARKET, make we go price.
Because "Ogun favours the swift."
If you price, you go pay!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome!
NEW PROJECT ALERT
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Connecting places: Roots to Horizon - TEDx Ado-Ekiti
6th, Dec, 2025
"Telling our stories, Telling your story"
The heart of my talk were a few simple but demanding ideas:
who you are, curiosity, imagination, sacredness, infrastructure, and community.
My story was the drive but bro I realised how unconventional it has been.
