Seeing double: the wooden carvings that celebrate the Yorùbá’s unique connection to twins

The Ìbejì Project is resurrecting interest in the traditional art of the Yorùbá people, who have one of the highest rates of twin births in the worldWhen the Nigerian art collector, curator and dealer Kayode Adegbola was given a pair of Yorùbá twin statuettes – ère ìbejì – in 2022 as a reward for a successful art deal, it was the start of a new passion. While he had seen a few ìbejì carvings in his uncle’s collection of African traditional art, the gift resonated with Adegbola, a twin himself.“I have always been conscious of ìbejì but I will say my passionate research was definitely a 2022 moment. Continue reading...

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