As Nigeria celebrates 60 years of independence, ART X Lagos presents its fifth edition online this year (2–9 December 2020), after its November show was postponed in solidarity with the #EndSARS social justice movement calling for police reform and better governance....
At kó, politically charged drawings from the 1980s by Uzo Ego, Tears of Sorrow, and Strangers in Their Own Land (both 1987), are a personal reflection on his preoccupations with his home country's political struggles as a Nigerian who migrated to the U.K. in the 1940s where he lived until his death in 1996. Showing works by an older generation of modernist artists feels particularly poignant now, as artists in Nigeria today live through the continuing struggles of the post-independence era....
