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'Okomfo Anokye' (2018)
Dancing proudly against an abstract background Okomfo Anokye is paid homage in this painting from Ghana. Active in the late 17th century Okomfo Anokye was a fetish priest statesman and lawmaker attributed with the co-founding of the Ashanti kingdom in West Africa. Leopold Twum paints this historic figure in an expressionist style his skirt made from jute fiber attached to the canvas.