(i)

of dancers and performers

swaggering through arenas, concrete and dusty

robed in wide varicoloured ancestral grandiloquence

swathed in sweat & fronds & substances indecipherable

propelled by the indwelling of Ará Ọ̀run

& sheer ecstaticness of annual dances to the celestial.

(ii)

of seekers seeking

& vultures venturing

& insuperable sundering birthed by modernity

& capitalism

(spiritual tourism, or so it’s named)