a golf is a coastal cities situated on the shores of west africa, the items you look at. so i'm a visual stories. hello and culture for dcf. let me show you my city the mega, the population of roughly 50000000 people, which makes it the biggest city in africa. nigeria broke free from british colonial when we gained independence in 1960. and today, legal is a box switching this pro across for into connected i'm in the, from the humble floating fishing community of michael coal.

both bulk, i solve the whole into $6000.00 miller news and us $1.10 and after dock we knew how to have a good time the over the years i've documented my city to art and culture of production today. i'm very excited to present the super last history. amazing was in the city of league off coming up in this episode of dw oxy africa. we may tie it, you know, wakes laws have an identity to a complex multi media works. we spend time with kind of deal so high. it was a reach painting is increasing across, texted metal surfaces speak to

a come in or shows us as icon a graphic works in supply advice of bringing in a new state. we meet the photographer, how you buy new booby who creates woven photographs be so like, oh my lady takes us into the fascinating world of knowledge and performance office . julie presents is holland. you knew what the 1st stop is to walk in class area of lucky opinion. to the boss niger and women ahead is very complex. it is political,

it is cultural. it also has historical elements. hi, it is an office when braces on the, you know, work the hey, sorry. hi. well this looks to me, i think i'm just getting ready to start on the collage, the tires, visual language consist of depicting strands of human hair into woman with carl think, why did you decide to approach your work? you know, from this perspective, it was really because of my own hair is on my 1st so, exhibition. have hulu. so, and there was a,

the condo seeking out. my put so now grandmother. but using has the starting point to go. she's on known to my family and then i'm left with this quietly long head that is unique to me. ties. it is different from many of the nigerian women. as a child tie was often told that she must have inherited i have from my grandmother . the older tie has pictures of all the family members. she knows nothing about her father's a mother the and it was about kind of seeking out my put so now grandmother, you know who i, she was she from and obviously because of my head, she was glad that she was in from the, from the ground coincidence. you know, so my head became the starting point for the journey or, you know, finding this woman. so it was kind of a rim, and on the left of this woman that's on known to our family type who up in building

city in to see how she was influenced by local culture. the leg queen mother was referred as who was assigned the alba is the king tide drawers upon the traditional carl beads are beginning culture and combines this with human hair to create the intricate artworks these are still very rarely boxes today. so the images that i use, by example of many brides because they kind of copy, you know, this, i don't meant um that is one by the king. so i'm gonna show you the process of how the i do the layering for the whole much i'll show you my cloud draw where all my quite a lot of stuff are. so there's some beats that i just cut out and then you see the

hair. so this so, so the image is i'm gonna cut the amount due on a caught something i would you know that i want to try my hand to the side of things. women. i've always been in doug's lights where we're constantly doing stuff in the back, which is why for me is very important that i tell women stories because there is a lot that women doing and they make a little contribution to, to the sizes. and usually the image that we get of women not always in this sense, the mother of or do see once you know, nobody reads ok bye. the important stuff we don't necessarily have to like be in the forefront. but i think is important. and the people at least aware of for, to a doing behind you guys. absolutely. yeah. so this is in a way, an acknowledgement of women's role and also importance is yeah. on power and power

. yes. my time retired as me, reflecting on how it works might be so many lead, but they carry their own quiet power of women stories in what is often a male dominated to get started by from ties place. we travel east across the famous lucky bridge i, we had for the oldest several or because we this is where we find the angels and we used all my board it is an awesome to beta space and it was founded by the artist speak to a come in or the lifetime del victor is also using the to create is out what the deal is reading to preaching and disrupting symbols from childhood and

dropping copland quite to catholic schools and everything on new some of the terms of what shape of belief system that i had side by side with dr. mission, i'm growing up in the village. it's something that i've been finding it out with all my life. but if you take a try this on a, i forgot to opt out of where it belongs, but we have a different many way to use it for something that is the last time. so it does that . the 2 things that i'm kind of like walk in with when i started using these are pieces and we look at them. what i'm seeing now is the king domains the king, the way he would normally address the entire bundle rad eyes. and the a lot of my walk is that the presence of i can know, graphing because is what ties onto walks together. does it come on right now?

you're going to see and all the world can see it here in this one here. then, you know, said india, here is one of the lines. because of growing up this, we had things that were on the was of the village. daniel's ideas created my own visual language with that big 2 is drawn on the rich legacy of traditional niger and i kind of gras fee to create its own contemporary interpretations of this patterns. the toys also an avid collector of the name bronzes sabine influences a group of several 1000 metal clocks and sculptures that used to decorate the royal palace in the kingdom of the name. in what is today known as a tow states nigeria. in 1897 british troops

remove them from beginning to date. the largest collections are to be found in britain, germany, and america. the risk due to the bidding process where we tell him to the king of the decrease in 2023, where they will be to state as much as you have been decided. and i think that we as humans and to be making them as a living try to try a living culture, would continue authority event itself at every given time in history, one of africa's biggest culture of objects, there's a museum of west african out more currently under construction in the city with 70 percent of nigerians. on the 3rd this museum will be a cultural center with a full cost on contemporary ok to inspire the next generations

victim exhibits internationally. anyhow, studios in the united states of america and lagos, you also have mentos emerging autism. i'm the photographer, i you by me. we is one of these prodigies you work with best buy. so we have to be careful here. yeah. i, a by me, is recently started creating large scale what the land that you have been busy. i've been trying to like work on more personal stories. okay. like you advised me speak week involves the into we think of the photographs. this is my room and i've been put in my diary, right. this is great. i love it or love it. thank you. it's almost like a hide and seek kind of where i live in on our. yeah. you kind of like, you see me, you don't see me and you, i'll say man

a while bach. i was in the schools kindergarten and these kids were weaving colored people. right. and i, i just have that through then i was really frustrated with the contents that came to able to come up with. and i was like, oh and then somebody just told me like, oh, what if you do, you move your, your photographs, people choose fabric, us the go to months, you'll be able to identify with each other. if you're very familiar with the design of tools. because by such a business, by the end, it's like at no cost, right? and then we have this situation where people choose the sprint vibrate and then the, the costs of the altitude from it's just the identify with each other. so it could be differentiated. it could be tribal, just to have about sense of identity with each other. but more recently of, of been like pull myself more into my work. and so i went back home to my parents

house where i was raised listen my data, my mom is talking about this business emptiness. they had raised all of their kids and everybody is not out of the house. so i photographed the baby in front of the family car and in front of the house in this space you could see them that keeping the house and in sales. what else to funding besides each other? so i'd be sense of the relationship. taxes would be who the on the vendor is an oven. you for them to come together and have a conversation and be friends. they also do not turn it down. so that is what the space is. it's all about the

need, are you by me and journey to the suburb of mainland to meet one of 9 jewish farmers, contemporary artist kind of deals, ties analysis that i've worked with in the past. and i find his work rather intriguing. i that i need to do more to, he's been very busy. oh wow. i see a lot of fit goes see new. what does the human body mean t o, in my walk i have synchronized the sugars shown on our structure them together. so the body for me, that's where all the human falls lives so that you can wear their body to the he my story as a graphic, artist and painter. kind of these are the focuses on human subjects on the experiences of oppression. an example of this will be the events that took place in

the town to 14 in the delta region. 14 is rich with all white is also pool and polluted. the delta region lives in south of nigeria. in november 1991 under the seat of president of passenger, the nigerian ministry action against protest as in delta region. and we community members where demanded a great to share in the long run and nice and i didn't. i did some sketches when or by son, joe, a sense of munitions able to a hulu for women, or for the people for the, for jasmine i sent their customer for testing by deal or, you know, in on then somewhere where have to buy this or does and then die as college said into something must survive and decided to kill this man. to this coach from the

1st pension i made, didn't go above or the in nights and night and i, she got this particular walk. and so it's a combination of what's happening on all the many atrocities does help when does the brought or the not every month to t is in our country. so this, so here i took a for the by trying to are you from the ridges 1st memories like did did the pictures of it. and so by confident out there giving force, you know, to that. so this black is to check if you like us to try to do like is shocking to strikes are and then you said it was a size and emphasizing to that you know, that these beautiful i know the kind be has a new project in the works so i offered to lend me my hand so, so it takes a minimum cost slots and then the surface of in

a box. let's see how you want to talk to so much fun and enjoying this impulse. so i think there's some elemental parity in this as well. is it just play for format? this is not by this whole think i can double up as the assistant leaving behind kindly be dw oxy africa. johnny now takes is downtown weather, streets of legal, so often used for film sheets. nigeria is known for its huge, sending my industry called know the way it is. the 2nd largest film sector globally on was, was an estimate of $6400000000.00 us dollars in 2021, generating roughly 2500 feet of film. yes. it's

a long while i day is a well known production design to put in a visual stand on the screen. we travel to the sub. oh my go to where i'd be. so the past couple says welcome to my production space. please come in. let me show you the images that form some of the film sets to be filled out as design. she's walked in projects such as family and crime, dramas, and commercial. this is my office. i walk in hollywood, you know, people are loving things like supernatural wrong, whole role people going on, push not journeys and logs behind me are. so my works that i've done, i've, i've directed on this project and i've done production designs of next

i'm working on a new project is called, or we have to recreate one of the busiest markets in legal springs. very nigeria. i just little lot, silva and is very instrumental to my work. i work with lots of offices. i couldn't do like, collaborations with them and let me sit down to get and say ok, we're trying to create something, something different, something that simple into the story. the quality lodge also tells the social class of the people in the story. so when my friends see and feel, i need to be can easily tell that i was the one who did the direction. i'm very intentional about the way that i use odd. i'm also be the quality and quantity in our research is for new ideas of lucky face, one home to the new care at the gallery of

the biggest ad gallery in west africa. and that'd be so that comes here to find pieces for a films from this collection, which called was contemporary as well as traditional ok to keep watching. in other words, if you want to see my way, the moving note was on dw oxy africa, jenny, we're going to a huge events that gathers artist and collective from across the west africa and beyond the now with all the premium offset in west africa. and we're here to see the very best apart from q ratios to all to, to all collectors. and then please, yes, this is a place to be and they goes during the off season. so can we meet?

let me show you the very best sentence for us to, to show the 2015 all types of attracted, growing attendance with the local appetite for aut, increasing each year. the despite economic challenges and global down to the hotmail. okay. as the main to resilience illegal, the, the pot for months, which the, i tooled don't it's garlic, magic queen. i'm actually to create kind of a symbolic object. the actually explain the actual. i'm these types of glue 90 v. i tried to bring up the consequences of, of, she's in a boat, you know,

using the boat and some of the destruction without done it. so on way was the bone and life was already gone out of that and had been silent. what the, what the british i'm going to was as, as a, as a people colonial and i do. it was ruled by the british empire from the mid 19th century onto 1960, the 82222 queen elizabeth. the 2nd was buried on this event inspired. so d, d to create a performance piece that is the critique on the complex relationship. then i do as to has for the united kingdom called do not be garlic near the queen. the

that'll be queen is actually the death of glue. now isn't that was a long on during the cream, very out. i went to the pot of, i saw me. those are both sides of feet or 2 that i was as soon as some question about those see actually represent giovanni. think the idea of humanity daily. all the impactful performance is the museum is a colonial master. and in it, it transforms himself into a trick. stuffy good will re max the re tool in which is smashes the glass, these young display cabinets to liberate a traditional figurine. so why do you choose performance as a medium dumped? it performs as a medium because it's vulnerable gunning cold, and it is also to penetrate into the psyche of my or do you is it is like the commercial. how do you be able to start?

begin to feel the post as to what's impossible to you. so it's about connectedness . it's about one this. yeah, it's also about the embodied memory here, is that the body diaries as well. yeah. i see soon. thank you so much, bye bye. as read the pod from de leon head to the waterfront. i'm reflecting on how the all to c a c o reading to preaching niger and culture with post colonial confidence. and part of this brings us to the end of the w's off the africa with law for lego. the,

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never giving the most exciting thoughts. stories about people in the drive every weekend on d w white is something that happened a 140 years ago. still matter to you. today on the 77 percent, we explore how and event that divided up africa and took started. colonialism remains relevant today. welcome to the show, i am your host, ok to english novel coming up on the show intends on here. we need students to feel what they learn about colonial history at school. and can you either perform a community or still waiting for the return of

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