Odunayo puts on her DIY hat for the day and takes a wood carving lesson from men that have been skillfully shaping wood into everything, from drums, to Ere Ibeji since before she was born.
The father and son duo take Odunayo around their store and point out beautiful objects that we should all be desperate to own in our homes, including a game called Opon Ayooa that is a coffee table staple in many African homes both on the continent and abroad.
“How long have you been carving wood?” Odunayo asks.
“My father taught me…it is the only job I know,” the owner responds.
“How old are you now?” Odunayo asks.
“I don’t have records of when I was born….let’s just say 80,” he answers.
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Great video showing how artistic Nigerians are. What language are they
talking?
the carvings looked easy. the way odun was struggling to cut wood, :)
While advanced nations work on supercomputers ,Jumbo jets and advanced
robotics the Africans are still into wood carvings.
i have already waxed enough lyrical about Odun’s model like beauty and
everybody can see how beautiful she is, one of the things that impresses me
the most about her though is that she is so real, she does not try to
“form” in any way at all, she always keeps it real. She is polite and
professional; if you send any other Battabox “presenter”, (apart from Tim)
to the assignments that Odun goes on, they will ruin it by trying to form
with fake phonetics and false pretensions, they will end up annoying people
with their fake behaviour and end up ruining what should have been an
interesting story by acting so false …….. well done Odun for keeping it
real …. keep it up.
Great art, great skills and great video by a wonderful presenter. Thanks so
much, BattaBox for these native video series. Odunayo, well done for being
so real and your Yoruba is pretty good too. I hail all our skilled wood
carvers o, especially baba and his son shown here. May these skills never
go extinct. Oodua kare! Ire o!!!
Odunayo Thank you for making another wonderful video. I enjoy then all.
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This is one of my favorite Battabox videos so far…please continue the
great work. I always love to see traditional arts & crafts being
appreciated. I hope you can feature other areas too .i.e maybe the bronze
works from Benin and leather goods from the North is time permits. Please
where can we buy Baba and his son’s wood carvings?
What is the music playing in the background?
There’s a ring on her ring finger… I’m hurt