Overview: For Black Americans, ancestral memory is captured in foods that trace directly to Africa — including okra, yams and black-eyed peas. Olufani’s one-man exhibit displays his stylized depictions of culturally important foods that have carried “the promise of life” throughout generations.

(WIB) – Masud Olufani was hurting. It was 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had everyone on lockdown, and, like the rest of Black America, he was shocked, horrified, and angered by the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.

“I found myself having a really profound response to those murders — not just emotionally, but on a physical level,” Olufani says. “It did something to my nervous system that I hadn’t experienced before.”

The discovery of ancestors in Sierra Leone prompted Olufani to take a month

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