Adedeji Adeleye has filled his Edmonton apartment with African art, focusing on pre-colonial pieces. He wants people to learn about their history and meaning. CBC's Amal Mohamud has more on the story ... .
He promoted and patronised Nigerian and African art, opening several exhibitions with famous quotations. ... African Art in my write-up in the Guardian Art column edited by Jahman Anikulapo.
Artists were wrestling with Eurocentric influences throughout, and there’s a kind of wrenching back from Picasso’s appropriation of the African mask as well as a widely reductive view of African art as ethnographic.
LAGOS, Nigeria — Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week's opening of a major museum of WestAfrican art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display.