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For Yeko, the mask is where a people and their gods meet. Source draws a face in profile built entirely from pattern, cowries, eyes and wav…

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Most people see Makoko from the bridge. Anth Ezeokoye brings us down to the water, where a man poles his canoe and children ride beside him…

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Her eyes are closed, and that changes everything. She is not surveying a court; she is somewhere inward, chin lifted, a queen with no need …

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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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Of Toni Kuyinu's three royals, only the king keeps his eyes open, and he wears round wire glasses. A thoroughly modern young man, crowned w…

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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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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…

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Some women do not wait to be noticed. Ekundayo leaves her body as pencil and paints only the chartreuse dress, and her carriage does the re…

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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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Two faces in profile, back to back, and a flower opening exactly between them. Ibrahim gives the Roman god of doorways a playing-card symme…

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Yeko calls her son her Sun, and this is a picture of carrying one. A pregnant woman balances a tall patterned vessel on her head, eyes clos…