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A homage in the caricaturist's language: Fela at the keys, eyes shut, smoke curling, a spotlight from one side and fire rising on the other…

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In the rest of Made in Lagos a yellow sun shines over the scene. Above the Central Mosque, Anth Ezeokoye turns it into a crescent moon. It …

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Sisi is the Yoruba word for a young woman in her prime. Christian paints two of them mid-stride, one gazing up at the other as if the next …

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Before it was a square it was a racecourse, and the horses never left. Anth Ezeokoye puts the rearing horse statues at the centre of the gr…

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Nerome Borke gives her the darkest, calmest surface in the picture and rings it with gold. So everything restless happens around her and ne…

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Her face is drawn in black and white while everything around her blooms in colour. Then you notice the hand resting on her shoulder, the on…

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In Nigeria, a celebration has not begun until someone dances. Ekundayo catches three dancers at its height, faces left in soft pencil, the …

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Deep blue-black skin, a gold halo, heavy pearls at the throat, arms folded close. Dayo turns the figure away from us and lowers the eyes, a…

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KeO calls her a mask depicting the beauty of a young lady. He then gives her a tongue stuck out at the viewer and a star for a beauty mark.…

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The most crowded of Yeko's pictures, and the most devotional. There is a great face with closed eyes, a hand lifting a small vessel, women …

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Àríké carries the name her family chose: meant to be spoiled on sight. Funmilayo Tejumola paints her as a young woman preparing for marriag…

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Lagos is a city held together by its crossings, and Anth Ezeokoye gives one of its newest landmarks the same affection as its oldest. In Ma…