Ade holds onto Mama’s faded wrapper as she pounds the life out of the fufu in front of her. He wishes he could have a taste of the steamy yam before it becomes the sticky mold he equally loves but Mama would not let him. She pounds with the strength of ten men, using her ...

Modernist painter Peter Lanyon once commented that “It is impossible for me to make a painting which has no reference to the powerful environment in which I live”. Art is, more often than not, always reflective of the society it emerges from and its relevant context and while art can be made for art’s sake, ...