Insights
For most of the past decade, Calabar's annual festival hummed along as a brass-and-feathers street celebration, beloved by locals but rarely taken seriously by…
Abuja offers a rewarding art weekend for visitors who want to look beyond Nigeria’s best-known tourist landmarks. The capital’s galleries, public collections…
In October 1960, Nigeria's flag rose above a freshly independent nation, and the country began to ask what its public spaces should look like under self-rule.…
Buried for millennia in central Nigeria, fragments of terracotta sculpture have reshaped our understanding of one of West Africa's earliest civilisations. The…
In Melbourne's Footscray market, conversations between Yoruba traders and Somali merchants often drift toward questions of identity that have visual answers in…
Wooden ancestral figures carry more than their material history. Their carved surfaces, pigments, repairs, wear patterns and traces of ritual use may connect…
Within the thriving world of African contemporary practice, few artists have reshaped the language of abstraction quite like Ndidi Dike. Working from her Lagos…
The relationship between digital technology and cultural participation is changing quickly. Nigerian and African artists are exploring new ways to create,…
Across West African history, court art made authority visible. Objects placed in palaces, worn during ceremonies or carried in processions could communicate…
Bronze casting is one of the oldest art forms still practised today, and in Nigeria it stretches back more than a thousand years. The lost wax method, known in…