Artist: Adetola Wewe
Title: ÀWỌN ẸLẸYẸ (BIRD-MOTHERS)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 2015
With the painting Tola Wewe pays homage to The Mothers, as he begins a new season of work.
Another day, another revelation about how the US will not let African nations determine their policies. A new investigative report reveals how activists against pesticides and GMOs in Nigeria are being smeared with the help of dollars stumped up by Washington – much to the delight of US agrochemical giants such as the health-scandal-embroiled Monsanto. Having been at the receiving end of a US State Department smear campaign ourselves, we can only relate too well to what the activists targeted ...