The city of brown roofs keeps a room in Houston.
The city of seven hills and a thousand brown roofs, carried with us to Texas. Founded 2000. Still one family.
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AlhajaTitilayo Sanusi
President, IDU Houston Chapter
We did not come here to become strangers to one another. Ibadan raised us, and Ibadan is what we keep between us, in a city three oceans of trouble away from the seven hills.
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Four things, done properly.
Healthcare
Support for rural and community healthcare in Ibadan, and for members and their families here.
Relief
Organised relief when it is needed most, including through the COVID-19 years, at home and in Houston.
Culture
Keeping Ibadan legible to members raised far from it: the language, the titles, the observances.
Education
Backing Ibadan descendants toward higher academic standards, at home and in the diaspora.
The name is not decoration.
Stand at Bower's Tower on Oke Are and Ibadan spreads out under a single colour: rust, the weathered zinc of roof after roof, running over seven hills until the haze takes them. The city has been called the Brown Roof City for it.
That rust is the accent colour of this site. The indigo behind it is adire, the dye. The brass is regalia. Nothing here was chosen from a palette generator.
And on the skyline above, next to the tower, stands Cocoa House: mid-century, concrete, built to look forward. Both belong to Ibadan. So both are here.
The union is carried by its own members.
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