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From Zia, with love; and, A scourge of hyacinths
Soyinka, Wole; Soyinka, Wole
1992
Based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s.
Bida cloth
c.1978-1982
This is a light grey handwoven Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It is made up of two broad panels stitched t...
Okene cloth
c.1977-1979
This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of a single pane...
cloth panel
c.1976-1979
This is a handwoven cloth panel. The basic weave is black with red warp stripes running through it. The panel features supplementary weft float patterns in a variety of colours (red, white, blue, yell...
Aso-Oke cloth strip
c.1976-1984
This is a single strip of Aso-Oke cloth, woven in Ilorin, northern Yorubaland, by a man on a horizontal loom. Aso-Oke is a highly prized form of Yoruba handwoven cloth. In this strip, the basic weave ...