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The cheekiest of KeO's named cards: lashes lowered, tongue out, and a pair of combs hung at her ears as earrings. He takes the humblest too…

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One plane parked, one lifting away: the two halves of every trip home. Anth Ezeokoye spells the airport's name across the terminal exactly …

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A ring of white light, one eye flaring like a star, an ochre robe over a bare shoulder. Dayo paints Christ as a young African man with a fu…

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Clement's feminist is a woman who builds the life of her dreams, carries a man's load and keeps a woman's kindness. He paints that double s…

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Two feline goddesses walk hand in hand: Mafdet, cheetah-headed, holding up a bleeding heart, and Bastet, grey and cat-headed, raising her s…

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The last of Joshua Omoijiade's horseman collection, “the bringers of death in a world of my fashioning”. Babi holds a skull close, one hand…

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The rare Ai_mayor picture with no face in it, only the surfaces he usually builds faces from. At its centre a round window splits between l…

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The calm here has a source: between the closed eyes sits a tiny meditating figure, crowned by the third eye. Godwin gives the face a night …

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Tajudeen photographed a procession of drummers in cream robes under a hard blue sky, then reworked it until it moved like paint. The faces …

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Awẹlẹwà, the slender, beautiful one, carries what Funmilayo Tejumola calls the hope of an African renaissance. Under a gold-beaded fringe h…

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Of all the Made in Lagos scenes, this one carries the most weight. Anth Ezeokoye honours the Lekki toll gate during EndSARS as a moment of …

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An homage to the rapper who made Igbo sound like the obvious choice. Clement Obioha exaggerates the beard and the bulk and leaves the side-…