African Art -- The World And The Spirits The West African nations like Benin, modern-day Nigeria, Ivory Coast, etc were in contact with Portuguese and other Europeans from the 1500's onward. These wealthy...
People regularly ask whether an item is "a good investment." The truth is that buying art "for investment" is a shaky proposition. One main problem is that art is hard to sell. You need to send it to auction...
People: Yoruba Location: SW Nigeria Population: Perhaps 20,000,000 Arts: Yoruba beliefs and rituals, gods and spirits, with their blithering array of cults and secret societies, all of which use arts as an...
People: Eket (Eket-Ibibio)Location: SE Nigeria Population: 1,000,000 Arts: Because the Eket are so closely related to their larger cousins, the Ibibio, it is difficult in many cases to separate carvings used...
The Tiv People of Africa People: Tiv Location: Benue State, Cross River Region, SE Nigeria into Cameroon Population: Disputed, but large, 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 Arts: Though the Tiv have produced a large...