
The Last Dance
The music has not stopped. She has simply heard the silence underneath it.

Mami Wata
Queen of the rivers. Mother of the deep. She has every gift, and she keeps the price.

Oriana
She arrived with flowers and weather in her hair, and the room rearranged itself.

Mama Gold
She built the market and the market built the city. The cigar is hers. So is the last word.

Goldie
Everyone in the room is looking. She decided that a long time ago.

The Traveller
One eye for the road ahead, one for the road behind. He has walked both.

Cleopatra
History painted her pale. The painting gives her back her face, and her cat.

Ayra Starr
A whole generation looked up at once. She was the thing they were looking at.

Stardust
She is made of the same thing as the sky. When she goes, she goes back into it.

Morningstar
Before he fell, he was the brightest. The fire remembers him. So does the dark.

Tutu
Enwonwu painted her, and the nation saw itself. Here she is again.

The Lover
He loved hard enough to age from it. He would do it again tomorrow.

Father Time
He is not counting the years. He is watching them pass on their way somewhere.
