Oríkì: The Words That Wake the Head
Yoruba praise poetry, lineage memory, and the art of being called by name CHAPTER ONE The Sound of Your Own Name Ilé la ń wò, ká tó sọ ọmọ lórúkọ. We look at the home before we give the child a name. Somewhere tonight a grandmother is holding a restless child and chanting over it. She is not singing a […]