Déborah

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[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

Master of Fine Art (Painting and Sculpture) bagged.
Thank you, Dept. of Painting and Sculpture,
Thank you, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.
— Tennyson
Xexe geɖewo ale gbegbe, nu geɖewo ŋutɔ si wòle be míawɔ, .
Nu ʋɛ aɖewo koe míewɔ, nu mawo siwo wò hiã be míawɔ.
— Tennyson in Anlo-Eʋe

Journey strengthened, horizon widened
not an arrival, but a step

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

"We do not walk for today.
We walk so the ground remembers,
so the wind carries our names,
so the dead know we have not forgotten,
and the unborn find their way
by the fire and sound we guard from the past."
- Megborna ADEGBO Kalazɛ
DZOƉUƉU: Pathways of Ancestral Fire
2025

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

"We do not walk for today.
We walk so the ground remembers,
so the wind carries our names,
so the dead know we have not forgotten,
and the unborn find their way
by the fire and sound we guard from the past."
- Megborna ADEGBO Kalazɛ
DZOƉUƉU: Pathways of Ancestral Fire
2025

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

We walked to wake the Ancestors

Dzoɖuɖu: Pathways of Ancestral Fire is my MFA thesis performance, a ritual procession across KNUST campus that reanimates ancestral presence in civic space.

Blending Anlo-Eʋe and Asante spiritual traditions, we walked with …

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

We walked.
We called.
We cleansed with fire.

DZOƉUƉU: Pathways of Ancestral Fire – a procession through KNUST campus reanimating ancestral presence in civic spaces through ritual, sound, ancestral veneration, African spirituality & movement.

🎥 Watch:
#Dzodudu #Megborna #MFA

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

DZOƉUƉU: Pathways of Ancestral Fire

My MFA Procession Performance, through KNUST Campus, reanimating ancestral presence with ritual, sound, & movement!

Painting & Sculpture

📅 Aug 1, 2025 ⏰7:30-9:00AM📍KNUST
This is a Performance Art piece but you might just get possessed! 🤫

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

In the silence of broken tables, “AGBA GBAGBÃ ƔLIWO” rises,
a sacred echo of meals undone,
quarrels etched in shards,
and memories held by the earth.

Part of “GLADLY CHOKED PURPLE” group exhibition

set where a structure once stood majestic, now, hallowed ground.

#mfa #Ɣliwo

[thestoolhouse @thestoolhouse]

Carrying the fire of the tɔgbeawo
With humility and action!

Join us every Thursday at The Stool House as we learn about our traditional roots.
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Lesson 1 in pics…. (1/3)
@megborna

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

DEKORNU: Lessons From The Stool House
Lesson 1
A Griot’s Answer: How I Commune with the Tɔgbeawo - by Megborna ADEGBO Kalazɛ

You ask me how I commune with the ancestors. This is no ordinary question.
You have touched the veil.
You are opening a doorway that is sacred, (1/10)

[M @Ma_thapeloM]

If Ace has 100 haters, I am one of them.
If Ace has 10 haters, I am one of them.
If Ace has 1 hater, that hater is me.
If Ace has zero haters, then I'm dead.
#loveislandsusa #LoveIslandUSA7

[j | mourning gen v @jaysoromantic]

wow…people are really starting to hate ace, i feel so…so vindicated #loveislandusa

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

TSI DZA - This is the Libation Observation Performance.
Watch full performance video here:

https://t.co/8NDcm6CySC

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

In Eʋe, “susu / bui be" is closer to “reason” or “thought,” not exactly “idea.” It suggests a deliberate cause or reflection. So, “Susua nyo” means “It’s a good reason/thought.” For “idea,” we use “aɖaŋu.” E.g., “Aɖaŋu nyuie aɖe ma” = “That’s a good idea.” #SpeakEweNow @KafuiDey

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

You too you dey call am “Kente”??
What happened to Kete ?

[AFA NE AFA @afaneafa]

Time is not lineal in Anlo-Ewe and Akɔm thought. It spirals.
Our debut album AFA NE AFA is still spiraling through you, released last September, but forever present.

Soak it. Return to it.
Time no be straight line. Time be spirit.
#AfaNeAfa l @megborna @KwabreNyame I

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

First, we must fight the war within.
We have been mirrors to our own undoing,
shadows wrestling shadows in a world that rewrites us.
To beat them, we must first beat ourselves.
Unlearn the fear they taught us to wear,
bend the rules they built to break us,
and sharpen our minds…

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

BODZO BADZAAA

I offer, I invoke, I become.

With water, I call for peace; let the earth drink and be still.
With flour, I trace the paths of those before me; let memory take form.
With spirit, I confront what is unseen; let fire rise in resolve.

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

two artists, two kindred souls
Home, Anloga, Ghana
February 2025

[MEGBORNA ADEGBO KALAZƐ MAWU @megborna]

MI DU NU ƔLI HA WO - A Dinner of Sounds
Stills from my recent installation in ANLOGA.