One gentle February campaign night in 1999, when the long overdue harmattan still ravaged through the city and all the wells were famished and the mucus on the nose of the children were flakes and their skins were shriveled and white as foreigners and the clatter of teeth were louder than a thousand and one ...

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, ...