One bird dey show up again and again for Chika Okeke-Agulu art and poems. People wey visit Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art for Ibeju-Lekki fit follow dat bird through Freedom Bird, one exhibition wey gather work wey e don do for more than 30 years. Di museum for Pan-Atlantic University list 1 November 2026 as di start of di exhibition.
Two dates dey wey person suppose remember. ThisDay report for 1 November say na dat Sunday public viewing start. E put di formal opening for 12 noon on Sunday, 8 November. Di museum and SMO Contemporary Art wey join am present di exhibition give 31 January 2027 as di closing date.
As scholar, Okeke-Agulu don write about oda artists. For dis exhibition na im own work people go see. Dem fit look im paintings, drawings and sculptures. Some things wey di finished artwork alone no go show dey there too. Poems, wetin e write for diary and photographs dey beside di works, so person fit trace how one idea develop over time.
One place to start na di artists community for Nsukka, wey di museum connect to im early work. Di exhibition link works from di late 1980s come reach now with Nigeria experience of military rule and later hope for democracy. As e move go United States, another question enter im work: how memory and where person feel say e belong fit change when e dey look back at Nigeria from abroad?
Di museum describe di bird wey dey appear often as one way to think about how people dey find freedom. Visitor fit look for di bird for poem and for picture, and carry question enter di gallery. How di artist fit use one line for poem talk something wey e go show another way for drawing?
Wetin e mean for you: if you dey plan journey go Ibeju-Lekki, decide whether na normal gallery visit or di official opening you wan attend. Di exhibition cover plenty months. Check di museum visiting hours for di particular day you wan go.