I was present at Rele Gallery Onikan on August 27, 2017 at the listening party organized for Wana Udobang’s sophomore poetry collection called In Memory of Forgetting. I have also spoken with the poet, in an interview published on Brittle Paper, about her work, craft, and opinion on the Nigerian literary scene. So I was glad to see that she has created visuals for a few of the poems in the collection.
This one is called “20”. It was released on September 20. According to the press release, ‘the video was filmed in Lagos at Freedom Park. The concept of “20” was developed by WanaWana, directed by XYZ, and features MTV VJ Folu Storms. The video artistically celebrates love, sensuality and feminine agency in a poem that has been described by one critic as “steamy and intense”.’
Enjoy.
You can get the album here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/wanawana, or at Salamander Café (Abuja), and at Terra Kulture and Rele Gallery (in Lagos).