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I have been labeled as the guy who wants
to change the world if I had seen the
notice earlier I would have edited it
who can even assay to do such a task and
the world have already been saved and
changed by another all I seek to do is
to expose this hidden good news I was
born in a village in States my father
was a returned itinerant worker working
for the land run will waste later the
NPA so I adopted in lookup cosmopolitan
fever as he was transferred from one
capital city to another since I hope you
don’t mind I have to read this so that
ok he was transferred to Lagos to
portico to Calabar in those days then
John will wait and the NP staff were
drawn from all over Nigeria we live in
staff quarters having Yoruba Ebel’s and
houses their neighbors that was a
shocker for tribalism communal living
then the civil war broke out and I was
sent home to the village of my origins
and I’d be held there an unprecedented
phenomenon a true communal living
lifestyle full of love my father had two
brothers and they all lived together in
their – without two wives each in one
large compound it was a very front door
opening into a courtyard and they
brought back door opening the echo echo
means back yet
for those who can’t speak arrival and
then this door will open all day and had
to enjoy running around ok I’ll tell you
it was a big courtyard so as kids would
run into one of the rooms run out the
others were playing hide-and-seek and
we’re playing catch me if you can
and you know there was so much love
because no doors were locked
we had so much love we mixed together
and whenever we are
first something happened I didn’t know
those I mean I hope we have some people
from the 50s 60s yeah okay so whatever
we’re running around and you walk it you
run into it on the house and you were
grabbed by thirst all you did was there
was this spot at the corner okay
somebody’s like you’ve been there haha
so there was a part of the corner if you
know for water and then as kids will
just run into any of the rooms you pick
up the cop okay and then you dip it was
an internal cough remember another cup
now you pick up the cop you dip into the
pot you take some what are you drinking
you move on I know the amazing things
sometimes the part was so full right so
that without if you picked up the cop
you could you could as a kid if your
hand could go right in to your to your
elbows and you know the amazing thing
because of love so much love there was
no cholera and then the war ended and I
had to go back to the city went back to
you know go to study art at the int nugu
now I tell you what I’ve done some
paintings I’m trying to save the system
people said well you want to be am i a
messiah wanna see the system and I said
not why sit on the fence and so what
happened was I started painting about
the way I felt trying to change the
system and I said pin highlighting the
things I saw the use of the site see but
I didn’t work out the more I went into
that the more people felt bad because
you can’t use evil you can’t use the
things that are bad to change the things
that are bad use the positive change
negative and then halfway through in my
you know grouping to see what I could do
to change the system through my art
Jesus found me I know what better way
for somebody save the system or to save
the world then when the savior of the
world himself you know comes into your
life and so from 1980 81 no 91 when he
came into my life my I changed my act
because of a big smile anymore
I said from that point onwards to start
trying to use love show love in my
paintings show the old values that we
had
we used to have a communal love and then
from there hope by God’s grace change
the system through that so now I go to
the painting so we could look at them
this is the painting I call a magadhan
it was just faces lots of faces in
anguish people move around with
tombstones in their eyes that was when I
was trying to change the system without
Jesus okay
and so I was saying the people who are
two students by the eyes negative
headlines surrounding them they can use
for headlines because there was a
blanket of negativity in the in the
country of the time so therefore they
are magadhan the first one I did call a
Magadan no place to hide then the next
one I hope it’s clean off obvious claim
of well this second one hat is called
wet dreams he had to do with somebody in
the village hoping to run away from the
village thinking that was too negative
there to run to the city for help and
then he would wake up okay that’s the
man there I talked to his roots looking
up to this together
but soon he wakes up to the fact that
look it’s everywhere you know he was
just a wet dream okay in front of mine
now run to New York hoping that New York
was better you know and so he took off
this what is called a need in New York
he ran to New York with his mat and
skyscrapers overwhelmed him he couldn’t
take it low self-esteem brought him back
to the country so that’s what I call a
live in New York and then this is the
last web I’m saying for their Magadan
series the yearning this is a lady who’s
reaching out to somebody to something
looking for lusting for something that
is better you know and you know I used a
meal to show what she’s reaching out for
the see how long the hands are what
she’s actually is concave the impression
of the man is concave and she’s convex
it has no meeting point you cannot reach
out for the spiritual through the
physical actually this is my what’s our
tube a graphical
I guess that ways
my works I can’t over to biographical I
could see myself in those paintings as I
kept on changing this was getting close
when I was reaching out for something
that was not there I thought I was
reaching out for something in the
positive you know what I was reaching
well for the for him for the Lord and
then he found me okay and now salvation
okay that’s it that’s when I reached out
and I was grabbed okay
I then he grabbed me out of the murky
waters you know and put me on a platform
where I can talk more about love okay
now I start telling love stories through
my exhibitions you see as I talk about
values that we’ve lost parents and
living niggas the crazy thing about
legless kids the press who come at four
o’clock in the morning and they take off
to work okay and then they come back at
nine o’clock there’s no time for their
kids they don’t know what happens on
Sunday they have a bit of time and then
on Monday they are off again so I said
pointing to the van is that we had
weapons you still have time for their
children you know and would teach them
things this app work here is called
sacrifice is it history my father told
me that there was a man opposite a
compound who sold his last back rub you
know do you know how does refer to as
well precious in those days and it’s
funny read too and so he sold his last
refer material to provide a covering for
his son to go to school and there apply
his tattered thanks together and he’s
using that wrapper as a non-relative
cover his child and look at the child
has swagger you know you see so that is
sacrifice and I keep telling people I
say hey come on you know listen this
thing happened these values that we have
values of sacrifice sacrifice to a child
and then for me this is on the primary
the protection level on the primary
level somebody sacrificed for us to give
to so that perhaps water also and that’s
the Lord Jesus okay now this is a
painting I call them a daisy you know
this kids this is the daughter of King
you know you cannot touch a king’s head
if you touch the King said you are dead
but his little baby can touch the head
and
clip the hair you know so this is the
King wanted to relax and they are they
at that decides to have that time to
play the hair so the type of this work
is then you keep your head won’t play so
I go beat you
it’s only on a daisy that can do that to
the king manage that so I’m talking
about values that we have things that
values that we’ve lost
I don’t think parents in Lagos I mean I
knew about learn about caliber would
have time for that kiss this way and now
this is another one spending time with
children steel this one happened in
front of my house
my father saw the other one I saw this
one you know where a mother you know
pregnant woman covered the child from
the rain and she stayed in the rain I’m
cover that child took all the weight
from her to cap bags and the child would
play with flowers that’s love and this
is another one I call this one love
story number five where a father is
spending time teaching his daughter how
to weave baskets you know this this is
women are the most amazing people in the
world don’t let their softness Willie
this with Clara that’s it this guy so
women awesome you know in this play in
this painting this is a mother who’s
giving by bathing for children how could
replace what you know something and
she’s not rough food she’s doing her job
fantastically and taking all of all of
them
no hypertension I mean if you know they
meal the guy would freak out but that’s
I would freak out
my wife is incredible with this sort of
thing I call this is love and this is
you know this it’s only mothers you know
mother is lying down the childhood
slides down which this book and puts the
mother’s leg is like a pillow you know
I’m sorry the back is like a leg rest
you know only mothers you know that’s
another love story I don’t know where we
should have time for this that’s daddy
placing the daughter’s hair days
and that’s dr. plated mommy’s hair you
know the opposite you know when when you
love they love you back
it’s always that way when you don’t love
and I think there’s a problem there’s a
deficit of love in the world today
especially in Nigeria that’s why we’re
seeing all the things we’re seeing well
get back to love all the things you’ll
disappear okay um well for that mother
teaching the child how to quorum on the
old way
you know forget the walk has you know
now you put the child in and what can
you just go do your thing but in those
days was hands-on you put the child
there and the child is crawling and
they’re teaching each other how to crawl
how to open all that okay this one is
called fine by force I actually saw this
in my neighborhood you know this was
Sunday evening I’m sure they were trying
to prepare the kid for for the next
school day and this kid was sleeping
guys the kid was that will you know but
mommy had to make the kid fine by force
feed her and you know for me this it
metaphor a metaphor in the sense that
listen hey God watch because fine by
force
no matter what we do who wants to love
us and make us find out first you know
all my works are metaphorical this is
letter form of our scenes this is the
letter has come and they are reading it
I don’t know what is clear from there
you remember the blue envelope that used
to happen in those days everything
Fabiana that’s letter from over see
everybody has come to listen to the
letter the same fine by first love songs
I tell a lot of these stories over and
over again you know the mock is selling
what she doesn’t forget the child if you
charge of the mommy would turn back you
know mothers are amazing honestly let’s
give a hand for mothers of eggs it’s not
mothers are the most awesome my wife is
my wife is the greatest no schism okay
that’s more than child cooking together
this happened in my Studios I had them
singing together while preparing food
and I had to claim that this one this is
the series called love songs blowing the
wind he being nostalgic playing songs
missing home you know just like I’m
missing the past I choose to be this is
father the father here is your house the
soul is evil and the
they are making music together you know
same thing here you know this is the
sun’s the first time the Sun is playing
music and the father is surprised look
at his eyes oh my boy you know that’s
the title and then this is a house am an
evil lady playing music I have to run
same thing evil evil man house a woman
playing music not songs this is an
amazing story you know when mothers used
to do their children’s hair and they did
send their children to hairdressers you
know what was happening the amazing
things are they are doing the child’s
hair and the child is crying they start
singing love songs you know you know the
songs they sing the most beautiful songs
of love I don’t know they sing love
songs to the child you know something
those love songs made the child the way
installations for the future that’s why
you can’t see women of my generation
freaking I didn’t tell you I mean hey
very stable because I’m the love songs
in them might installations of love you
know and then the child will just say
mommy you know it’s it’s not difficult
it’s not easy to keep a child steady and
then the assessing in the love song
singing love songs you know and then
they’ll do the hair and this love
something installed forever you know
well I got a I got pretty different
types playing each other’s instruments
and loving them different rides on the
same marks and they’re eating together
from the same plate no fear of poisoning
because of each other you know and then
this one in him we live in him we move
him you have a big in God we all cool
together out of God with time okay well
that’s enough I boom or a fig and a your
bad woman bugging down you know they are
doing their thing together
that’s it love story and then this one
is called them this is called God the
greatest joy of God is to explode stones
into the world you know he gave birth to
sons that’s a great a story of God this
one is called love songs love story
gods had excluding enjoy and give him
better children into the world you know
getting them born again now this is
called foreplay know
story foreplay you know it shows it
shows them different federal bomb an
ebow man look at their leg intertwined
you know in love I look at the child on
the back enjoying himself I witnessed
this and they’re playing the hola yo
game that’s that’s core not not know the
love songs love stories different tribes
together on the same plate leadership it
has called leadership you know you point
to the other the one put into this one
and your make in his core leadership
same story this one is I call this the
old rugged cross 2,000 years old
rugged but it stood bearing fruit still
bearing fruit and this one is called the
ultimate love song okay this is God
playing using the guitars across and
playing it come to us
[Applause]
you
[Music]
[Music]
I have been labeled as the guy who wants
to change the world if I had seen the
notice earlier I would have edited it
who can even assay to do such a task and
the world have already been saved and
changed by another all I seek to do is
to expose this hidden good news I was
born in a village in States my father
was a returned itinerant worker working
for the land run will waste later the
NPA so I adopted in lookup cosmopolitan
fever as he was transferred from one
capital city to another since I hope you
don’t mind I have to read this so that
ok he was transferred to Lagos to
portico to Calabar in those days then
John will wait and the NP staff were
drawn from all over Nigeria we live in
staff quarters having Yoruba Ebel’s and
houses their neighbors that was a
shocker for tribalism communal living
then the civil war broke out and I was
sent home to the village of my origins
and I’d be held there an unprecedented
phenomenon a true communal living
lifestyle full of love my father had two
brothers and they all lived together in
their – without two wives each in one
large compound it was a very front door
opening into a courtyard and they
brought back door opening the echo echo
means back yet
for those who can’t speak arrival and
then this door will open all day and had
to enjoy running around ok I’ll tell you
it was a big courtyard so as kids would
run into one of the rooms run out the
others were playing hide-and-seek and
we’re playing catch me if you can
and you know there was so much love
because no doors were locked
we had so much love we mixed together
and whenever we are
first something happened I didn’t know
those I mean I hope we have some people
from the 50s 60s yeah okay so whatever
we’re running around and you walk it you
run into it on the house and you were
grabbed by thirst all you did was there
was this spot at the corner okay
somebody’s like you’ve been there haha
so there was a part of the corner if you
know for water and then as kids will
just run into any of the rooms you pick
up the cop okay and then you dip it was
an internal cough remember another cup
now you pick up the cop you dip into the
pot you take some what are you drinking
you move on I know the amazing things
sometimes the part was so full right so
that without if you picked up the cop
you could you could as a kid if your
hand could go right in to your to your
elbows and you know the amazing thing
because of love so much love there was
no cholera and then the war ended and I
had to go back to the city went back to
you know go to study art at the int nugu
now I tell you what I’ve done some
paintings I’m trying to save the system
people said well you want to be am i a
messiah wanna see the system and I said
not why sit on the fence and so what
happened was I started painting about
the way I felt trying to change the
system and I said pin highlighting the
things I saw the use of the site see but
I didn’t work out the more I went into
that the more people felt bad because
you can’t use evil you can’t use the
things that are bad to change the things
that are bad use the positive change
negative and then halfway through in my
you know grouping to see what I could do
to change the system through my art
Jesus found me I know what better way
for somebody save the system or to save
the world then when the savior of the
world himself you know comes into your
life and so from 1980 81 no 91 when he
came into my life my I changed my act
because of a big smile anymore
I said from that point onwards to start
trying to use love show love in my
paintings show the old values that we
had
we used to have a communal love and then
from there hope by God’s grace change
the system through that so now I go to
the painting so we could look at them
this is the painting I call a magadhan
it was just faces lots of faces in
anguish people move around with
tombstones in their eyes that was when I
was trying to change the system without
Jesus okay
and so I was saying the people who are
two students by the eyes negative
headlines surrounding them they can use
for headlines because there was a
blanket of negativity in the in the
country of the time so therefore they
are magadhan the first one I did call a
Magadan no place to hide then the next
one I hope it’s clean off obvious claim
of well this second one hat is called
wet dreams he had to do with somebody in
the village hoping to run away from the
village thinking that was too negative
there to run to the city for help and
then he would wake up okay that’s the
man there I talked to his roots looking
up to this together
but soon he wakes up to the fact that
look it’s everywhere you know he was
just a wet dream okay in front of mine
now run to New York hoping that New York
was better you know and so he took off
this what is called a need in New York
he ran to New York with his mat and
skyscrapers overwhelmed him he couldn’t
take it low self-esteem brought him back
to the country so that’s what I call a
live in New York and then this is the
last web I’m saying for their Magadan
series the yearning this is a lady who’s
reaching out to somebody to something
looking for lusting for something that
is better you know and you know I used a
meal to show what she’s reaching out for
the see how long the hands are what
she’s actually is concave the impression
of the man is concave and she’s convex
it has no meeting point you cannot reach
out for the spiritual through the
physical actually this is my what’s our
tube a graphical
I guess that ways
my works I can’t over to biographical I
could see myself in those paintings as I
kept on changing this was getting close
when I was reaching out for something
that was not there I thought I was
reaching out for something in the
positive you know what I was reaching
well for the for him for the Lord and
then he found me okay and now salvation
okay that’s it that’s when I reached out
and I was grabbed okay
I then he grabbed me out of the murky
waters you know and put me on a platform
where I can talk more about love okay
now I start telling love stories through
my exhibitions you see as I talk about
values that we’ve lost parents and
living niggas the crazy thing about
legless kids the press who come at four
o’clock in the morning and they take off
to work okay and then they come back at
nine o’clock there’s no time for their
kids they don’t know what happens on
Sunday they have a bit of time and then
on Monday they are off again so I said
pointing to the van is that we had
weapons you still have time for their
children you know and would teach them
things this app work here is called
sacrifice is it history my father told
me that there was a man opposite a
compound who sold his last back rub you
know do you know how does refer to as
well precious in those days and it’s
funny read too and so he sold his last
refer material to provide a covering for
his son to go to school and there apply
his tattered thanks together and he’s
using that wrapper as a non-relative
cover his child and look at the child
has swagger you know you see so that is
sacrifice and I keep telling people I
say hey come on you know listen this
thing happened these values that we have
values of sacrifice sacrifice to a child
and then for me this is on the primary
the protection level on the primary
level somebody sacrificed for us to give
to so that perhaps water also and that’s
the Lord Jesus okay now this is a
painting I call them a daisy you know
this kids this is the daughter of King
you know you cannot touch a king’s head
if you touch the King said you are dead
but his little baby can touch the head
and
clip the hair you know so this is the
King wanted to relax and they are they
at that decides to have that time to
play the hair so the type of this work
is then you keep your head won’t play so
I go beat you
it’s only on a daisy that can do that to
the king manage that so I’m talking
about values that we have things that
values that we’ve lost
I don’t think parents in Lagos I mean I
knew about learn about caliber would
have time for that kiss this way and now
this is another one spending time with
children steel this one happened in
front of my house
my father saw the other one I saw this
one you know where a mother you know
pregnant woman covered the child from
the rain and she stayed in the rain I’m
cover that child took all the weight
from her to cap bags and the child would
play with flowers that’s love and this
is another one I call this one love
story number five where a father is
spending time teaching his daughter how
to weave baskets you know this this is
women are the most amazing people in the
world don’t let their softness Willie
this with Clara that’s it this guy so
women awesome you know in this play in
this painting this is a mother who’s
giving by bathing for children how could
replace what you know something and
she’s not rough food she’s doing her job
fantastically and taking all of all of
them
no hypertension I mean if you know they
meal the guy would freak out but that’s
I would freak out
my wife is incredible with this sort of
thing I call this is love and this is
you know this it’s only mothers you know
mother is lying down the childhood
slides down which this book and puts the
mother’s leg is like a pillow you know
I’m sorry the back is like a leg rest
you know only mothers you know that’s
another love story I don’t know where we
should have time for this that’s daddy
placing the daughter’s hair days
and that’s dr. plated mommy’s hair you
know the opposite you know when when you
love they love you back
it’s always that way when you don’t love
and I think there’s a problem there’s a
deficit of love in the world today
especially in Nigeria that’s why we’re
seeing all the things we’re seeing well
get back to love all the things you’ll
disappear okay um well for that mother
teaching the child how to quorum on the
old way
you know forget the walk has you know
now you put the child in and what can
you just go do your thing but in those
days was hands-on you put the child
there and the child is crawling and
they’re teaching each other how to crawl
how to open all that okay this one is
called fine by force I actually saw this
in my neighborhood you know this was
Sunday evening I’m sure they were trying
to prepare the kid for for the next
school day and this kid was sleeping
guys the kid was that will you know but
mommy had to make the kid fine by force
feed her and you know for me this it
metaphor a metaphor in the sense that
listen hey God watch because fine by
force
no matter what we do who wants to love
us and make us find out first you know
all my works are metaphorical this is
letter form of our scenes this is the
letter has come and they are reading it
I don’t know what is clear from there
you remember the blue envelope that used
to happen in those days everything
Fabiana that’s letter from over see
everybody has come to listen to the
letter the same fine by first love songs
I tell a lot of these stories over and
over again you know the mock is selling
what she doesn’t forget the child if you
charge of the mommy would turn back you
know mothers are amazing honestly let’s
give a hand for mothers of eggs it’s not
mothers are the most awesome my wife is
my wife is the greatest no schism okay
that’s more than child cooking together
this happened in my Studios I had them
singing together while preparing food
and I had to claim that this one this is
the series called love songs blowing the
wind he being nostalgic playing songs
missing home you know just like I’m
missing the past I choose to be this is
father the father here is your house the
soul is evil and the
they are making music together you know
same thing here you know this is the
sun’s the first time the Sun is playing
music and the father is surprised look
at his eyes oh my boy you know that’s
the title and then this is a house am an
evil lady playing music I have to run
same thing evil evil man house a woman
playing music not songs this is an
amazing story you know when mothers used
to do their children’s hair and they did
send their children to hairdressers you
know what was happening the amazing
things are they are doing the child’s
hair and the child is crying they start
singing love songs you know you know the
songs they sing the most beautiful songs
of love I don’t know they sing love
songs to the child you know something
those love songs made the child the way
installations for the future that’s why
you can’t see women of my generation
freaking I didn’t tell you I mean hey
very stable because I’m the love songs
in them might installations of love you
know and then the child will just say
mommy you know it’s it’s not difficult
it’s not easy to keep a child steady and
then the assessing in the love song
singing love songs you know and then
they’ll do the hair and this love
something installed forever you know
well I got a I got pretty different
types playing each other’s instruments
and loving them different rides on the
same marks and they’re eating together
from the same plate no fear of poisoning
because of each other you know and then
this one in him we live in him we move
him you have a big in God we all cool
together out of God with time okay well
that’s enough I boom or a fig and a your
bad woman bugging down you know they are
doing their thing together
that’s it love story and then this one
is called them this is called God the
greatest joy of God is to explode stones
into the world you know he gave birth to
sons that’s a great a story of God this
one is called love songs love story
gods had excluding enjoy and give him
better children into the world you know
getting them born again now this is
called foreplay know
story foreplay you know it shows it
shows them different federal bomb an
ebow man look at their leg intertwined
you know in love I look at the child on
the back enjoying himself I witnessed
this and they’re playing the hola yo
game that’s that’s core not not know the
love songs love stories different tribes
together on the same plate leadership it
has called leadership you know you point
to the other the one put into this one
and your make in his core leadership
same story this one is I call this the
old rugged cross 2,000 years old
rugged but it stood bearing fruit still
bearing fruit and this one is called the
ultimate love song okay this is God
playing using the guitars across and
playing it come to us
[Applause]
you
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