01 · Insecurity
The Walls Fall
Bandits open the wound. Officials trade ideas for self-interest, workers go unpaid, and the old guardrails collapse into rubble. A diasporan watches the news from abroad and feels the bassline of a broken home.
The story
A nation may have broken walls. It cannot afford for its people to lose hope.
A bandit attack opens the wounds again. Government officials reject innovative technology for self-interest, workers go unpaid, courts compromise, and a good man dies in a hospital that could have saved him — while the doctor who could have helped watches on his phone from overseas. Corruption reaches even the altar.
Then the tide turns: diaspora scientists and professionals organise, and a laboratory known as GAI LABS begins building solutions with state-of-the-art technology. The power brokers unravel; the women — mothers, daughters, wives — fervently stand in the gap. The overpowered leaders surrender, and a new breed of young, disciplined leaders triumphs — a generation that walks with lions.
- 13Chapters, one per song
- 7Sequences choreographed in Chicago
- 2Home cities: Chicago & Nigeria
