Má Dull Ara ẹ: Live Conversation with Ashake Clothing / Omowunmi Waheed
Channel: Jelili Atiku
Date: 2020-05-16

On Friday May 15 2020, Jelili Atiku Foundation hosted a live conversation on zoom.  The conversation was tagged, “Má Dull Ara ẹ: Live Conversation with Ashake Clothing / Omowunmi Waheed”. It was based on “Má Dull Ara ẹ”, a solo show of clothing by Omowunmi Waheed of the fashion label, Ashake Clothing. The cloths in the show took note from the impacts of the ongoing lockdown in Lagos, which has left millions of lower-income households vulnerable, battling hunger and miserable – The situation that has brought humanity into a critical state of trauma and confusion. Omowunmi haven understood this prevailing circumstance produced clothes for children in the show in the period of the lockdown and during a special workshop, which was conducted by Jelili Atiku as a form of relief package and community care initiative. The clothing designs in style, quality, beauty and glamour are characterized by poetic and minimalistic propensities with heavy concentration Yoruba culture with a blend of hybrid contents of foreign influence.

Jumoke Sanwo (an artist and Creative Director at Revolving Art Incubator, Lagos, Nigeria), Rikke Jørgensen (an independent curator and founding artistic director of the Arts & Globalization Platform), Jelili Atiku (international renown Nigerian artist), Wasiu Ibrahim (Director of Jelili Atiku Foundation), Kola Tubosun (a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, and cultural activist), Chidinma Nene (fashioner designer) and others engaged Omowunmi Waheed in a deep conversation. 

Jelili Atiku Foundation, building on Yoruba indigenous values of egalitarian community, human growth and happiness, Jelili Atiku established the Jelili Atiku Foundation (JAF) on the simple principle of human development, and survival of indigenous African knowledge, religion and human values. JAF is therefore, committed to helping the growth of Nigerian citizens, especial the indigenous people to realize their full potential in arts and livings.