These selections represent my understanding of the peaks of conceptualization, analytical and narrative power and expressive force reached in Falola "s writing so far, as assessed from my admittedly small but possibly representative reading of his work.
-- Essay and Book Chapters
"Ritual Archives"
Visionary,incantatory, magical, itself a ritual archive, the phenomenon it describes.
"Jacob Festus Ade Ajayi: Our Foundation, Our Mainframe and Our Roof'
Profoundly celebratory, lyrically expressive at the intersection of poetry and scholarly writing
"Yorùbá Hair Art and the Agency of Women in Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies
An amazing rendition, in terms of high scholarly discourse, of the esthetics of women's hairstyles in Yoruba culture.
Poetry
"Remembrance: Clara Adeyemi"
Movingly, tenderly0elegaic, sweeping nature into a participant in the mourning and celebration of a departed friend.
An earlier summation of the poem by myself:
An absolutely magnificent piece dramatising nature's seeming mirroring of human pain, yet experienced as an outside world oblivious to the turmoils of the heart.
Falola's characteristic simplicity of expression is in action, yet evoking elemental, primal, human and natural realities in subtle but potent force
"AYO OLUKOTUN: MO GBỌ́ OHÙN RẸ NÍNÚ AFẸ́FẸ́'
"Ayo Olukotun: I Heard Your Voice in the Wind" translated by Akin Solanke
A wonderful evocation of the luminosity of memory through imaginative mapping of nature, from animals to the elements.
Books
Autobiographies
A Mouth Sweeter than Salt
Counting the Tiger's Teeth
Narrative masterpieces in every sense- descriptive power, scenic evocation, characterization, linguistic potency,imagistic vividness.
Scholarship
Global Yoruba : Regional and Diasporic Networks
Unusually ambitious, encyclopedic, expressive purity and power combined. enlivened by rich images commissioned from artists.
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