AKWAEKE

UDUDEAGU | 01:44 | Lagos, Nigeria | 2014

'Ududeagu' is a contemporary visual folktale rooted in concepts of loss, leaving, and loneliness; shot within acknowledged private and intimate spaces. It follows a cultural pattern of intergenerational storytelling and also functions as a gendered self-portrait in which the subject’s male body becomes a proxy for my own. Originally written in English, I collaborated with my father to translate the narration into Igbo, and narrated it myself as an exercise in engaging with the lost fluency of my language.