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Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Artist: Naftal Momanyi Media: Wood carving Title: Prison warden
ait! Is it possible urinal pot was a bath tap for calls it restoring, reinstating,
for anyone to a silver female python snake or restitution. A learned
Wlose the earth nicknamed “madame.”. friend will say it is unlawful
and heavens too? A hilarious Again, one time he traveled possession of something
chap in a single room placed to his rural home to greet the taken without permission. It
a urinal pot next to his cucu, and again the son of a then applies to any African
doorstep. While kicking his man finally took his “kiki.” art taken during colonial
feet in the wee hours, the Now, if the son of man and missionary expansion
son of a man tiptoed in and feels empathetic and brings in Africa to extend illegal
stole the urinal pot. Early back the urinal pot, it is exports.
in the morning, we heard referred to as a “return.” It is
a loud cry of a stolen pot, bringing something back to My auntie sobbed bitterly
and we then knew it was a its original form or place. If whenever she felt her
bequeathed heritage from the son of a man brings back singlehood family affairs
cucu (Grandmother). We his “kiki,” it will be called were out of control. In her
were further scared that the “reparation.” The dictionary prayer, she would accuse my
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