Àbíkú
Repeated Arrival
01 / INHERITANCE
Begin with the context.
A historically important category concerning children understood to move precariously between worlds and repeated birth/death cycles.
Place & variation
Yorùbá philosophical and devotional traditions in southwestern Nigeria and neighbouring communities. Accounts vary; no single formulation represents every lineage.
02 / SYSTEM — EDITORIAL ANALYSIS
Identity & continuity.
Narratives of repeated arrival address precarious childhood, loss and belonging.
This is the archive’s reading of a structure or relationship, not a claim that the tradition was designed as a modern technology.
03 / FUTURE — INHERITED FUTURES SPECULATION
How might an artwork hold grief without turning a child into a metaphor alone?
Unstable embodiment and cyclical presence.
An artistic proposition to explore. Historical documentation does not establish the technological analogy.
FOLLOW THE RESEARCH
Sources & context.
The linked sources distinguish collection evidence, research and contextual reading. They support the inheritance layer; the system and future layers are editorial interpretations.
Research edition 01 · September 2026. A desk-research synthesis; not a practitioner-certified account. Some linked books and articles require library access. Read the evidence guide ↗
Follow another thread.
Editorial links connect shared themes, objects and practices. They do not make the records interchangeable.