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Chinedu Ogakwu, Nigerian Artist Who Inspired the Farming Childhood

Artists and creative people’s voices are assumed to be the voice of the landscape and the social settings of a time and space. Artists and writers knowingly or unknowingly use a landscape’s territorial element, reflected in their works, like as a skeleton or armature of a design. Because of this, scholars use artwork and literature […]

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Collage Artists from Nigeria Portray ‘Africa in Abstraction’

Krispin Joseph PX There is always something to do or create by humans. We are constantly working on something; creating, recreating, moulding, remoulding, shaping, and reshaping has been a never-ending practice for humans since our existence. Before artistic expression has taken place, the identity of an artist, what do we bring in different mediums, or

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Experimenting with the Traditional and the Modern: Ladi Kwali’s Contribution to Pottery

Niveditha Ajay The 20 naira note holds the only named woman to appear on Nigerian currency currently- Ladi Kwali. Her position and fame both nationally as well as internationally are a result of decades dedicated to the carefully preserved, skilled artwork that is pottery. Ladi Kwali’s illustrious work throughout the latter half of the twentieth

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