no one should have to make up your own mind. d. w, made for mines the welcome to lagos, to be come on the capital of my country. nigeria may go to the coastal cities situated on the shows of west africa, the items you look at. so as i'm a visual storyteller 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 gain independence in 1960 on today. lagos is a vast cities this pro, across for, into connected. i'm in the, from the humble, floating fishing community of michael cole. ultima. okay. sorry about the hold to 6000 miller news. 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 last history. amazing was in the city of legal coming up in this episode, dw, use oxy offer, guess we may tie it, you know, wecks last have an identity to a complex multi media works. we spend time with kind of deal so high. it was a reach paintings that created across texted metal surfaces speak to a come in or shows us as icon a graphic works inspire advice of bringing in a new state, the photographer, how you buy new booby who creates woven photographs. be so like, oh my god, he takes us into the fascinating world of knowledge and performance. office jelly presents is holland. you knew what the

1st stop is to walk in class area of mickey opinions 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. i was 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. would carl

think? why did you decided 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 it was about kind of 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 quailey's own 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 african coincidence. you know, so my head became the starting point for the journey or, you know, finding this woman so it was kind of remedied on the left. so this woman that's on known to a 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, who is the king type of drawers upon the traditional carl beats are beginning culture and combines this with human hair to create the intricate artworks bids us do very rarely advances today. so the images that i use, for example,

of being a brides because they kind of copy, you know, this, them, i don't meant and as one by the king. so i'm gonna show you the process of how the i do the layering so much. i'll show you my cloud draw where all my class stuff. ok. so there's some beads that i just cut out and then you see the hair. so this are some of the images. i'm gonna cut the amount due on a caught something. i was not sure that i want to try my hand to the side of things for man 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 so that i can tell women stories because there's a lot that women doing and they make the little contribution to, to the sizes and usually the image that we get of women not always in this

sense of model. so do you see what's, you know? nobody reads ok, bye. the important stuff. we don't necessarily have so like being the full front, but i think is and thoughts on 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 as yeah, power and power. yes. my time retired as me, reflecting on how it works might be so many i'm they, it, 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 softball or weekly. this is where we find the angels and music fall level, which is an awesome to beta space i just was founded by the alters

speak to you. come in on the like tying del victo is also using the to create is out what the deal is. reading to preaching and disrupting symbols from childhood. dropping catholic went to catholic schools and everything on the some of the times of what shape or belief system that i had side by side with dr. young. 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, of where it belongs. does 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 that he's a king domains the king, the way he will not address the . so what's in the eyes and the other off my walk is that the presence of can over i free because is what ties already walks together that they 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, it wouldn't be lines because of growing up this, we had things that were on the was of the village, dental body. yes, great. and my own visual language, with that big 2 is drawn on the rich legacy of traditional niger, an icon, a, grassy, to create its own contemporary interpretations of this patton's choice

. also an avid collector of the name bronzes sabine influences a group of several 1000 metal clocks and sculptures. they used to decorate the royal palace in the kingdom of the name, in what is today known as a those states the 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 name by decree in 2023 where they will be to state as long 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 aust. more currently under construction in the name city, which 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 bypass, so we have to be careful here. yeah. i, a by me, is recently started creating a large scale. what the you have been busy.

i've been trying to like work on more personal stories. okay. like you advised me safely involves the into we think of the photographs. this is my room and that's been for us in my diet. right. this is great. i love it or love it. thank you. it's almost like a hide and seek kind of fly. we've been on our yeah. you kind of like you see me. you don't see me and you don't see me a while bach. i was in the schools kindergarten and these kids were weaving colored people. right. and i just have that too. but i was really frustrated with the process 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, or the costs of the outside from it's just the identify with each other. so it could be differentiated if 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 and the 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 that's this would be who they are

doing. there was an oven. you for them to come together and have a conversation and be friends. they also do know tony don't. so that is more displeases, it's all about the we are you by me and journey to the suburb of new england to meet one of my jewish farmers. contemporary artists 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 little stickers 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 is 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 to action against protest as in delta region. and we community members where demanded a great to shit in the long run and nice and i didn't. i did some coaches when or

by son, joe, a sense of military people to a hulu for women, or for the people for the, for jobs. but i sent the customer protesting 5 deal or, you know, in on then somewhere where i have to buy this or does and then die as college said into something must survive. man decided to kill this man to this coach from the 1st pension i made. it was about 40 and nights and night, and i tre guides this particular walk. and so it's a combination of was toppling on all the many atrocities does help. when does the brought or the not every month to tiers in our country. so the, so here i took a for the by trying for you when you raise 1st memories like did, did the pictures of it been so by confident out there giving force you know to that

. so this black is to check if you like, is try with this, like is struck and it strikes are and then you said it was the size emphasizing to that you know, that these beautiful i know that kind be has a new projects in the works. so i offered to letting me in my hand so, so you're telling me that those plots and then the surface to them about how you want to talk to so much fun and enjoying this. and also, i think there's some element of parity in this as well. is it just play for, for me, is no by this. 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 shoot nigeria is known voice. huge sending my industry called no the way it is the 2nd largest film sector globally on was watson estimate is $6400000000.00 us dollars in 2021, generating roughly $2500.00 future seals. this alone, while i day is a well known production design to put in a visual stand on the screen. we travel to the suburb of my go to where i'd be. so the highest office. welcome to my production space. please come in, let me show you. he may do that from some of the film sense to be so not as designed. she's walked on 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. there's not journeys and logs behind me are. so my work that i've done, i've, i've directed on this project and i've done seduction designs. and then 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 lost so much and is very instrumental to my work. i work with lots of offices. i can do like collaborations with them and let me sit down to get and say ok, we're trying to create something, something different. it's something that simple into the story. the quality a lot also tells the social class of the people in the story. so when my friends

see any film or 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 on. i'm also being on quality. i'm not going to see that research is for new ideas of lucky face, one home to the new care act 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 the what if you want to see my with the moving not was on dw oxy africa, jamie, we're going to a huge events, the gathers artist, i'm collective from across the west africa and beyond the

now with all tax the premium offset in west africa. and we're here to see the very best apart from q ratios to all to so i'll connect to the name please. yes, this is the place to be and they goes during the off season. so come we meet, let me show you. the very best seems is for us that is shown in 2015 all types of attractive glowing attendance with the local appetite for aut, increasing each year. the dislike economic challenges and global down to the hotmail ok. as the main to resilience legal, the

leaving behind optics. we travel an hour east to the walking class of the of the i am now about to present the office sending the proof of social media to cool is i need to nationally celebrate in multi media. ok, we use the performance to give a voice series concerns about human rights as social justice. imagine the what i need to do is busy preparing for performing. okay. oh i them very well. so tell me about this piece. it'll be the, the,

the judge for the front 4 months, which there i tried to do. it's gully, magic queen. and i just need to create kind of a symbolic object. the actually explain the actual and these types of glue. now living, i don't have time to bring up the consequences of all feed into bone, you know, using the bone and some of the destruction without, don't need to on way use the bone and life has already gone out of that. and that's exactly what the, what the british i'm going to was as, as a, as a people colonial nigeria was ruled by the british empire from the mid 19th century onto 19682222 queen elizabeth the 2nd was buried. and this event inspired charity 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 putting out isn't that was a long on during big green barrier as i went through the pot as i saw most of the both sides of feet. oh mary. then i was asking, what is some question about that? those see actually represent giovanni. think the idea of humanity. deli, all the impactful performance is the museum is the colonial master. and in it, it transforms himself into a trick. stuffy good will reenact. so ritual in which is smashes the glass, these young display cabinet to liberate a traditional figurine. so

why did you choose performance as a medium dump? good performance as a medium because it's vulnerable gunny co on is also to penetrate into the psyche of my or do you is it is like the commercial you be able to step, begin to feel the context of what's impossible to you. sorry, 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 we the pod from de leon head to the waterfront. i'm reflecting on how the artist we are seeing a whole range of preaching nigerian culture with post colonial confidence and part of the trains us to the end of the w's off the africa with law for lego. the,

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self sabotage. humans and multitasking watch. now on youtube dw documentary, they gave me the name moved to put means happy. when i was 8 years old, i was already dreaming of a future as a senior or something i wanted to become a hero of my family. which is dream was within reach. she'd become a star in turkey overnight. then a man took everything from with the help of his family and music. she rebuilt her life. and then his sister also became a family scholar by hatred and mother. and the daughters. i am willing to work for change and also so i will sing my song say, well, this injustice will not go unpunished. maybe my voice will be heard back to bring

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