Tag: Nigeria
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Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes
An absorbing group show explores the familial, economic and spiritual connections between the Nigerian megacity and a south London suburb
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Péju Alatise – interview: ‘My relationship with Nigeria is like a battered wife … Glasgow is a new relationship’
Having recently moved to the UK from Nigeria, Péju Alatise talks about growing up in Lagos, her campaigning art and its shifting style, and plans for her new Glasgow studio
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Emeka Ogboh – interview: ‘I want listeners to be transported to Lagos. I want them to feel what it is like to be in those spaces’
As his latest show, at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, explores his Igbo heritage, Ogboh explains why he was drawn to work with sound and how his practice has evolved
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Oluwole Omofemi – interview: ‘In my paintings, I try to tell the black community to embrace their beauty, to embrace their colour’
The Nigerian artist talks about how he uses hair – specifically the afro – as a metaphor for freedom and power, and a symbol of identity
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Nnenna Okore: ‘My work seeks to highlight Earth’s vulnerability and fragility’
Okore’s sculptures are poetic odes to the natural world. But beneath the delicate beauty there lies a pervading tension. She talks about how life and death in the natural world informs her practice
