It has been four years since Dare Art-Alade, one of Nigeria’s finest crooners of the Afro-Soul fusion, put out studio...
A good place to start would be Bisola Bada’s i am a body of water (Konya Shamsrumi, 2023). Like Ky’s artwork, the poems in Bada’s slim collection are trained on women’s bodies and the absence of the vocabulary of shame is immediately noticeable. Take for instance, these lines in dissimilar bodies: