Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Fiction_Gift_Guide it was easy to imagine

it was easy to imagine their future

a journey to his mother's birth­place where he once sought a link with his past

grounded in his family’s longstanding optimism and his own military service

Whenever IEDs were discovered

Levi Zendt

Bloodflowers: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s Fiction_Gift_Guide it was easy to imagineIn Bloodflowers W. Ian Bourland examines the photography of Rotimi Fani Kayode (19551989), whose art is a touchstone for cultural debates surrounding questions of gender and queerness, race and diaspora, aesthetics and politics, and the enduring legacy of slavery and colonialism. Born in Nigeria, Fani Kayode moved between artistic and cultural worlds in Washington, DC, New York, and London, where he produced the bulk of his provocative and often