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Madmen and specialists

Soyinka, Wole

1971

Madmen and Specialists is a play by Wole Soyinka, conceived in 1970 during his imprisonment in the Nigerian Civil War. The play, Soyinka's eighth, has close links to the Theatre of the Absurd. Abiola ...

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Bida cloth
Textile

Bida cloth

c.1978-1982

This is a light grey handwoven Bida cloth, woven by a Nupe woman on a vertical loom. (Bida is the capital of the Nupe kingdom in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It is made up of two broad panels stitched t...

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Okene cloth
Textile

Okene cloth

c.1977-1979

This is a handwoven Okene cloth, woven by an Ebira woman on a vertical loom. (The home of the Ebira people is the town and environs of Okene in the Nigerian Middle Belt.) It consists of a single pane...

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