“Make sure the trees talk back”

Niyi Osundare and Gbenga Adesina on talking to trees, the poetics of Yoruba, and carrying the weight of our fathers. Mentioned in this episode: “Invocation” from Green: Sighs of Our Ailing Planet by Niyi Osundare The Eye of the Earth by Niyi Osundare Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Painter of Water by Gbenga Adesina Songs of the Marketplace by Niyi Osundare “I Carried My Father Across the Sea” by Gbenga Adesina