Afumbom Okosun

Lives and works in Huntsville, AL, USA

Artist statement

Born in the “black mecca” of the world, Atlanta, Georgia, to a Cameroonian nursing student, and Nigerian pharmacist, the non-linear, intergenerational interrogation & narrative of first-generation Nigerian-Cameroonian-American artist Afumbom Okosun illustrates how culture - specifically in the American South - connects African Diasporan people from all over the world. Incorporating the multiple languages of his familial and spiritual lineages and cultural environments, his fictional re-publication, King Without A Crown, Vol.2: Letters 2 Eseosa (KWAC II), coalesces southern Hip-Hop or “trap” culture, Gentrification & Urban Renewal, Indigenous Migration Patterns, sexuality & Gender expression, African Traditional Religion (ATRs), Black and Africana Studies, Epigenetics, Southern History, Neocolonial Africa, Black fraternal organizations & academic institutions, and Black masculinity. Centering the black, cis-heterosexual masculine experience, in the deep, urban South, KWAC II is the non-linear, intergenerational interrogation & narrative of the first-generation storyteller. In this fictional re-telling, the southside metro Atlanta-native & descendant of both Cameroonian-Baptist missionaries & Esan-Edo traditionalists, takes the reader on a psycho-somatic, journey from childhood through adolescence and young adulthood`, chronicling being raised in a intergenerational, matrilineal West African household on the southside of Atlanta by two,...

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