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St. Clvtch gives the warrior spirit within him an ancestral face: a Benin-inspired mask honouring his Edo roots, worn over a body in heavy …

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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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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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Toni Kuyinu's gold usually crowns kings and queens. Here it rings the closed eye of a girl holding a single white feather to her face. It i…

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The subject is the child. Godwin Edet Munam's masked ancestors sit with their backs to a crowned infant, guarding it, praying for it and fe…

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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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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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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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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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The centrepiece of Toni Kuyinu's royal trio, and the only face that meets us head-on, yet his eyes are closed. Nothing is being claimed or …