Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon Quotes

“Besides, things like totems and relics and idols and masks and shrines were commonplace; just the background elements of existence, the rigorously religious tools of worship in the lives of men. They may have been made, charmed, used, broken, reclaimed, forgotten, but they always mattered to someone. It was a certain kind of savagery to keep these once purposeful items for no other purpose than display, as trophies in memoriam of a colonizer’s self-given right to take.”
― Wole Talabi, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

“So, there he was, barely conscious in the back of a black cab being driven down the Haymarket road on the spirit-side of London by a man who died seventy years ago, when Nneoma finally told Shigidi that she loved him.”
― Wole Talabi, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

“A force slammed into the vehicle with a deafening sound like an explosion made of other explosions”
― Wole Talabi, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

“Olorun rolled his eyes. “You’ve been around enough. Europe isn’t like Asia or Africa. Border restrictions are a function of power, not security or fairness.”
― Wole Talabi, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon