Casablanca: who owns the city #10 Yemoh Odoi

Artist, cook, boxer, musician and cultural producer Yemoh Odoi was fascinated as a child by the desert and its nomadic inhabitants. The silence, the space, the absence of people and references. He left Ghana at the age of 18 and travelled his way up to Casablanca via Senegal and the magnificent Sahara. 

He founded The Minority Globe to give voice to migrant identities through art. On our last day in Casa, the exhibition ‘Look at me’ opened. Photos of migrant women, taken by migrant women. “A migrant isn’t given anything. You’ve got to take. These women are taking their space.”

A talk about emptiness. About how the absence of ‘everything else’ brings out true creativity. As Yemoh says it: “In the desert you can only hear the songs that are composed in your heart”. 

 

References:

The Minority Globe
https://theminorityglobe.org/
Look at me
https://theminorityglobe.org/LOOK-AT-ME
Yemoh Odoi on music as a cultural mediator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkVdVXbREY