Description

This body of work is a visual meditation on how Africans gain experience, how we become. These pieces draw from ancestral rites, everyday labor, oral storytelling, urban hustle, nature’s rhythm, personal wounds, and digital flow.
In African societies, experience is not a solo journey. We learn in community, through the steady guidance of elders, the unspoken codes of our environments, and the pain that leaves marks on skin and soul. Knowledge is not rushed; it is earned, often without words, through time, touch, ritual, and resilience.

This series speaks to a time when fast information often overshadows deep wisdom. It is a call to slow down and listen, to the land, to the streets, to ourselves. Each work is a reminder that wisdom doesn’t only come from books or screens. It lives in people. In process. In pain. In pride.

The African way of knowing is circular. You don’t just arrive. You are shaped, and reshaped. You are always becoming.

Name of Production: Becoming: The African way of knowing

Name of Organization: Deolu Femi