In Apotheora’s alternate June 2026, at halftime of Nigeria-Argentina in Houston, a clip from the free fan zone went viral: twelve strangers playing a rhythm no tradition could claim — talking drum, cavaquinho, melodica, percussion from three continents — and three thousand people in a parking lot, moving as one.
Pola Rees speaks with Olumide Akindele, a Lagos-based dundun player whose cancelled club gig left him in Houston with a drum he never leaves behind.
Recorded June 2026. Apotheora
Apotheora is AI-generated speculative fiction set in an alternate timeline diverging from real events on 1 March 2026.
