Calabar's Ekpe

    Southern Nigerian ethnic groups of Efik and Ibibio is widely known for it's masquerade "Ekpe".
      With the brilliant red costume made of raffia, a rod in the right hand and a herb in the left. The masquerade is paraded in a face mask without mouth dancing in an energetic movement.
       The Ekpe is festival is a yearly international festival done in Calabar.
        The Ekpe is featured as a beautifully crafted figure that adorn the homes of those who appreciate the art of dance, music and culture interwoven together.

African Art is sacred

     Africans are deeply religious and just as our artworks reflects much of our culture, this is portrayed in our art, thus there's always a shroud of mystery behind every African artwork.

Let's talk African Art

  African arts typically describes art from the sub Saharan Africa region. African arts can be made of wood, ivory, animal hide, cowrie, raffia(plant fibre) and a host of other stuff.

  African arts are usually very expressive and are inclusive of African culture to give a layperson an understanding of the continent's cultural diversity.

   Did you know? At the start of the twentieth century,        
artists like Picasso , Matisse , Vincent van
Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Modigliani
became aware of, and inspired by, African
art.