Insights
Photographs of Fela Kuti once circulated primarily as press images, concert records and political evidence. Today, some have acquired a different status. They…
A canoe prow is more than the front edge of a river craft. In Nupe communities of central Nigeria, its ornamentation can bring together practical knowledge,…
Lagos has always treated the street as a place of exchange. Traffic, commerce, music, politics and faith overlap along its roads, producing a visual…
Indigo has given Nigerian cloth a deep visual language for centuries. Its blue tones can signal prestige, devotion, locality, ceremony, or skilled labour,…
Framing an artwork is a conservation task before it is a decorative one. At the Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF), apprentices learn to…
In Oyo State, a carved mask is never simply an attractive object made from wood. It may carry a family history, recall an ancestral presence, mark a festival,…
A Yoruba divination tray, or opon Ifa, is more than a carved wooden object. It is a working surface, a symbolic map and a stage for communication between a…
Ulì is a distinctive Igbo visual tradition in which skilled makers use plant-based pigments and fluid line work to decorate the body, walls, household objects…
El Anatsui’s large-scale metal tapestries transform discarded materials into works of remarkable visual force. Made from bottle tops, aluminium seals, copper…
The Nsukka Art School occupies a distinctive place in the history of Nigerian art. Emerging around the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, it gave artists a setting…