Martin Barlow, curator of the exhibition Moving Into Space at the National Football Museum talks about the exhibition.
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Abderramane Sakaly
Abderramane Sakaly
As a young man Sakaly learnt photography at an established studio in Saint Louis, Senegal. Moving to Mali’s capital, Bamako, in 1956, he set up his own studio and began to specialize in photographing the social circles of military officers and the growing middle class. After Mali’s independence and with the subsequent growth of the bureaucratic class, his studio became very successful. Just before he died in 1988, Sakaly was named the first President of Groupement National des Photographes du Mali.
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Barthélémy Toguo, Lucy Azubuike and Nnenna Okore, three of the exhibited artists, talk about their work and their interest in using materials which reflect the lifestyle and experience of the people of West Africa.
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Street life, dazzling dress, social commentary and a riot of sensuous colour interweave in a rich assembly of West African art, writes Charles Gore in the Times Higher Education
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