03/06/2026
The Market Woman ▲ Ọnụ bụ ọgwụ ọnụ 🛒 - “The mouth is the medicine of the mouth”
You’ve seen her. 7am at the market before the city wakes up. Prices memorized. Credit extended to neighbors she’s known for years. The informal economy, the one that actually feeds the country runs through her hands.
But look at her eyes.
The naira is pressed across them. She has a voice. Money took her sight. Not a person. Not a law. Just the slow accumulation of inflation, devaluation, subsidy removal, policy decisions made in rooms she was never invited into. The Executive, the Legislative, the Judiciary. The triangle sitting on top of everything she built from below.
In 1929, women like her marched. They shut down markets. They moved as one. They were silenced then too.
Now the suppression needs no enforcer. The system doesn’t need to gag you if it can keep the naira in front of your eyes. If it can keep you focused on survival, you’ll never look up long enough to ask who designed the game.
She feeds everyone. The system never asks her name. 🎴
ORÍ : CHAKAM Vol. I
Now showing at , Dubai 🎴
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