Insights
Across the Sahel, environmental change is altering the substances artists have relied on for generations. Longer dry seasons, irregular rainfall, soil…
A traditional cloth can carry the weight of a people's memory. The Tiv Kwaghir, a narrow hand-woven strip textile from Benue State in Nigeria, has done this…
Lagos Design Week has quietly grown into one of West Africa's most vibrant creative gatherings, pulling painters, sculptors, textile designers, and…
Across the Sahel, the savannas and the forest belts of what is now Nigeria, a small porcelain-smooth shell once circulated as seriously as coins change hands…
High on the carved wooden heads that top Gẹlẹdẹ masquerade costumes in south-western Nigeria sits a story older than the walls of Old Oyo itself. The headdress…
The Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation sits in the heart of Lagos, surrounded by a cultural landscape that has shaped generations of Nigerian…
Rotimi Fani-Kayode was born in 1955 in Lagos to a Yoruba family of jurists, and died in London in 1989 at the height of a brief, incandescent career. Across…
Nigerian paintings have moved from the margins of the global art market into the spotlight, drawing attention from collectors who once focused on European or…
Australians generate roughly 24 kilograms of electronic waste per person each year, and the country has been actively rethinking how to manage the cascade of…
Across the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and western Cameroon, Ekpe has shaped public life through performance, authority, music, dress, and…