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Oku Man, 2022

Nneka Osueke

Oil paint, glass and plastic beads, and fabric on canvas

W41H51 cm

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About Nneka Osueke

I have this incessant need to tell the world the Truth about Africans and the diaspora.

As a West African woman born and raised in America, I experienced an identity crisis early on in life: I was torn between being both Black American and Nigerian. These groups, vastly different in culture in many ways and so misunderstood by one another, tugged at me on both ends. Worn out from this push and pull, I went searching, and in the most beautiful, eye-opening ways, I found the history everybody had missed out on. I found out there wasn't much separation between my bloodline and my birthplace.

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Before European Christianity, Igbo people used nature and energy to restore balance within their lives and often sought wise counsel from the dibia. Dibias act as mystics, healers, teachers, and scribes of their communities. It is said they can access the spiritual realm at any given moment through a ritual which involves covering half or all of their face with chalk. A dibia can have dominion over water, earth/vegetation, or fire. An oku (meaning fire or heat) dibia, depicted by my brother Joseph, is said to possess the ability to walk through fire, unscathed.

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