Njideka Akunyili-Crosby’s I Refuse to Be Invisible (2013). PHOTO: Courtesy of the artist
Though women in the arts have suffered under-representation and been written out of the history books, some are demystifying the art space, which is helping them to make the desired statement. One of such female artists is Njideka Akunyili-Crosby.
Akunyili-Crosby is exploding the myth of ‘authentic African experience’. Her art “negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds”.
Akunyili-Crosby mixes the classic academic western technique with her personal life, Nigerian and American culture and African traditions. She composes scenes from her everyday life between two countries, using western elements like portra
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bring them and the same guy that distributed sugar or race is the same guy that distributed the wives and once the allocators wives they can rape them. so the higher rank you got the better the more wives you got. but they had to be allocated to you. and then and then from there you can you can have sexual relations with them and. then you produce children so the children produced in that process the bush babies. they don t they don t have any family back home they don t have any knowledge of what normal life is. so. that s because he s relying on that some bush. they have no family in uganda they have no idea of what normal life is and he s raised those guys up to senior