the cartographer of memory
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Tade Ipadeola (Author, The Sahara Testaments)
The poems here are shaped by a vigilant intelligence and an astute understanding of what matters. They have an emotional depth to them that belie the age or experience of the poet.
Gbenga Adesina (Winner, 2016 Brunel Poetry Prize)
We could as well call this the "Cartographer of Voices".
What the poet does, with much heart, is burrow into voices and speak with their tonalities.
Oyin Oludipe (Art Critic)
In his book, The Cartographer of Memory, Boluwatife is also the interpreter of memory: Memory is echo, stench, intrusion, and vision. Memory is verb and proverb; reflection and refraction—hollow graves, laughter, and healing. Memory is a sitting spot in history—an empty argument with pleasure—a vanishing point for the senses.
Yinka Elujoba (Art critic. Author, Collective Truth)
With Afolabi's work, he answers the primordial need for poetry to exist—empathy both with the distant and the familiar. Olu Afolabi's work abounds with hope, emerges as fresh, and is an important collation of focal points in a world plagued with distractions
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