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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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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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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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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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A building made of angles, drawn so that it seems to move while standing still. Anth Ezeokoye catches the Civic Centre from the road, with …

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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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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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The prayer builds line by line to a single word, Life, lettered larger than everything above it. Grace asks for a life measured by what it …

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Joshua Omoijiade sets a sombre scene in bright, happy colours: amid all the brightness and fads of life, death is always staring you in the…

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In Lagos, CMS is as much a direction as a building. Anth Ezeokoye gives the church its place in Made in Lagos. It is a series made to prese…

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