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My work thinks about the future. I am invested in Africa's incredible energy, vibrancy, our history and how it informs the present and our future.

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The negative impacts and distractions of Western influences.

I enjoy creating layered, intricate and detailed textures, colour relationships, and intricate, intimate details in a piece especially accented in my portraits. To paint is to be alive.

It is the love of African ways of life, the natural environment, extended families and strong communities that my paintings depict.

There is natural power in our earthy relationships among people.

My work captures the seasons of life and its passing phases, how they impact us. I believe that art indeed is my first language and I speak it fluently!

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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