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Sesan Michael JOHNSON Profile picture
Sesan Michael JOHNSON
@SMBofAfrica
Interdisciplinary Scholar-Researching: Death Material Culture~Pandemics~Medical Humanities~HistoricaL Archeaology~HGIS~Infodemics~Health Informatics
Jun 24, 2020 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
Invasion of #necropolis in times of #COVID19 is bringing into bear some of the havocs happening to dead bodies.

This reminds me of the so-called #resurrectionists and a piece I wrote sometime ago....

#CemeteryHistory #DeathHistory

saharareporters.com/2020/05/26/syn… "In Search of Ori Gbigbe & Ori Tutu: #Resurrectionists in 19th Century Edinburgh and 21st Century Nigeria" - by Sesan Michael Johnson @SMBofAfrica

With shared pains, I voluntarily enlisted as one of the gravediggers when one of my uncles was being buried in his house premised...
Jun 11, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
"#AfroFuturism: Of #Obatala and #Oduduwa's Peace Archetype for the World" - by @SMBofAfrica

Time, space and historical events are often encumbered in determinism. That George Floyd's scenario is historical and a re-enactment of past experiences of the Blacks is not elusive... Image Before the amplification and proliferation of the Trans Atlantic Slaves Trade, the rupture of world's peace had started out. Racialization coded and systemized in slavery in the US, though contested but not defeated by the events of the US Civil War under Abraham Lincoln Image
May 25, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
MAY 25 is #AfricaDAY. Reflecting on the import of the day, I remembered an article I mused to celebrate a living African LITERARY ICON (Wole Soyinka) on the occasion of his birthday sometimes last year.... I am mirroring it today within the paradigm of #afrofuturism "Wole Soyinka: A Modern Reincarnate of Ogun" as written by @SMBofAfrica

Akínwáandé Olúwolé Babátúndé Sóyíinká is a literary god. His writings on OGUN, his beloved Yoruba Pantheon shaped my ideas of the scientific past of the Yoruba nation within the framework of #afrofuturism Image
May 24, 2020 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
"Re-framing Yoruboid #AfroFuturism: Ogun's Transduction, Modernity and Globalization" by @SMBofAfrica

Premised on the disquisition of the likes of @RPhillipsEsq and @moormother, it's apt to agree that #afrofuturism reimagines Africa's past and envisions Africa's futures Image Myths and oral traditions of the Yorubas affirm OGUN as a figurine and one of the deities (irunmoles) that created the world (Yoruba's ontology, cosmogony and historicity). Ogun's affects transcend space, time, science, tech, temporalities and futurities. Ogun lives till today Image
May 19, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Nigeria Chickening Out the Futures of her Enterprising Youths - @SMBofAfrica

Totems and mythology on chickens evidenced the complexities & complicity inherent in how nature and human systems usually inadvertently & capriciously nurture chicks premised on showiness Image African #History confirms how the #Futures of #Africa looked promising premised on the age range of the sets of leaders that took over from the imperialists. Whereas, WEB DuBuois & Marcus Garvey had already been disappointed and disinterested.
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May 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Art historians like @moyokdg have talked about the mono-identification assigned to African arts, in spite of the variations in interpretations and appropriations that are organic in African Arts not only in terms of tribes but also in terms of the artists that curated the works No singular interpretation and meaning and language can be assigned to African Arts....From #Timbuktu to #Casablanca, #Ife to #Kishasha... can be assigned to the stories of Africa...... Arts can be used to understand Africa but it has been used to distort the stories of Africa