Insights
Portraits are never neutral records of appearance. They carry ideas about status, belonging, gender, age, respectability and power. In Nigeria, photography…
In a moment that resonated across the global art world, a Lagos-born artist accepted a major international sculpture prize, becoming the first Nigerian woman…
Abeokuta, a city carved between ancient granite outcrops in south-western Nigeria, has watched indigo drip from cloth for centuries. The Yoruba people here…
Lemi Ghariokwu’s place in Nigerian art is tied to the productive distance between the camera and the painted surface. His image-making joins the immediacy of…
How OYASAF’s Educational Outreach Programs Inspire Young Artists in Rural Schools is a story about access, imagination and cultural confidence. In communities…
Ulili body painting is a form of temporary bodily art rooted in the cultural histories of the Niger Delta. Surviving accounts associate it particularly with…
On the first day of October 1960, the green and white flag of a newborn nation rose above Lagos. The streets filled with procession, drums, and song. Beneath…
Ndidi Dike is a significant voice in Nigerian contemporary art, known for works that connect sculpture, installation, photography, found objects, textiles and…
Nok terracotta is among the most recognisable early artistic traditions from West Africa. Made in what is now central Nigeria between roughly 1500 BCE and 500…
Across Yoruba communities, the calabash is far more than a useful container. Its rounded body, hollow centre and natural connection to the earth give it…