
Artist
Olowa Emmanuel Akorede
- Artist
- Co-Performer
In their words
“An advocacy for Northern Nigeria challenging negative media narratives: a man pushing a wheel of fruits symbolises labour, abundance and overlooked potential, raising the question of national responsibility — if one region is neglected, the impact is collective.”
Works (1)
Chapters
- Abuja★Artist
Materials
- discarded items
Certificates
- PB-ABJ-2026-012 · Artist
Planet-B contribution
Mai Kayan Marmari
- Title
- Mai Kayan Marmari
- Year
- 2026
- Materials
- discarded items
- Medium
- Discarded items assemblage
- Chapter
- Abuja
- Artist
- Olowa Emmanuel Akorede
“An advocacy for Northern Nigeria challenging negative media narratives: a man pushing a wheel of fruits symbolises labour, abundance and overlooked potential, raising the question of national responsibility — if one region is neglected, the impact is collective.”
Material
From discard to record
Planet-B follows material as well as authorship. This is the route the archive tracks, and the reason work made from recovered material is preserved the way it is.
01
Discard
Something is thrown away. At that moment it has no value to anyone.
02
Material
Somebody recognises it as a material rather than as rubbish. That recognition is a learned skill.
03
Work
It is cut, cleaned, joined and composed into an object made on purpose.
04
Memory
The object carries where it came from. The material is still legible in the finished work.
05
Record
The work, its maker and its materials enter an archive that outlives all three.
The catalogue records this work’s material as discarded items. It does not record which specific object became which part of the piece, so the archive does not say.
The archive
Planet-B does not only preserve artworks. It preserves the people, the materials, the ideas and the circumstances that give those works meaning.
That is why this page holds more than a picture and a title. Olowa Emmanuel Akorede’s contribution to Planet-B is one work in one chapter, and it was made by somebody with a career that reaches far outside it. The archive records both, keeps them clearly apart, and does not flatten one into the other.
Identity
Planet Passport
A permanent identifier for one person's contribution. It is not a profile and it is never a score: it exists so that a record can still be found, and checked, long after the people who made it have moved on.
- Planet Passport
- PB-ID-000012
- Status
- Verified, not yet claimed
- Chapter
- Abuja
- Certificate
- PB-ABJ-2026-012
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Others in this chapter
Artists whose work was exhibited in Abuja alongside this one. A shared chapter, which is not the same as a collaboration: the archive records who was present, and does not infer who worked with whom.
- Abduljabbar Hasheem SaiduPB-ID-000004
- Abel Naomi Ufedo-OjoPB-ID-000003
- Ahmed MichaelPB-ID-000008
- Ajayi Elijah SnozPB-ID-000001
- Buhari Sani JunaidPB-ID-000013
- Caroline UsehPB-ID-000017
- Dr. Ngozi AkandePB-ID-000007
- Jesse Ojatta AmejePB-ID-000005
- Joel FridayPB-ID-000010
- Kaynan PeterPB-ID-000006
- Mbaya AishaPB-ID-000014
- Sadiq Abimbola RukayatPB-ID-000009
- Samuel IloriPB-ID-000011
- Udie UndiePB-ID-000002
- Yusuf DurodolaPB-ID-000015