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BdorianGray:
Wow! Op, lord have mercy! This is Nostalgic. I was a frequent viewer of these kiddies programme in the 80s on NTA2 channel 5&10. Like 80% of them all..esp Voltron. Superted-spotty .. Danger mouse..sesame street etc..
This post reminds me of other top tTV soaps and drama like behind the clouds, aya iya ko ko ko ko ko...New masq and village headmaster...
Na wah oh! The world is coming to an end oh ...

PastorAji:
That's my favorite sitcom

dfrost:
Kokoko koko... Kokoko ko ko koko

naptu2:


I see what they are doing! The NTA is celebrating its 40th anniversary by showing some of its classic shows at 5:30pm and . . .I just found out that they upload the shows to YouTube after showing them on TV!

Sunny Side of Life and The Turning Wheel are now on YouTube!

Sunny Side of Life



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sxqaMPOMSg

I hope they show Second Chance. There's no NTA show that I would love to see on YouTube more than Second Chance.

Konquest:
^^^^^^
^^^^^^
Ben Enwonwu also created the statue
of Sango... the Yoruba God of thunder
that the old electricity company NEPA
had in front of their headquarters at
Marina, Lagos Island.

It is not surprisingly that the painting
of Tutu which has links with Ile-Ife
has fetched such at a high price in
U.S. dollars!

I learned about Prof. Ben Enwonwu
while in secondary school...an FGC in Nigeria
years back during our fine arts classes.
We even had fine arts text books then
and also learned about the great Prof.
Bruce Onabrakpeya who is still alive
and painting even as an elderly man.
He has an art studio in the Papa-Ajao
Mushin axis of Lagos State.

This is the reason why I'm an
art lover/art collector, especially
sculptures in my house. I love
abstract paintings that force you
to think.

I wonder if the kids in schools today
are still taught about these art icons?


Nice thread!

Sarang:
But why after their death?

REDISCOVERED NIGERIAN CULTURAL ICON
AFRICA NOW

28 Feb 2018

London, New Bond Street


Tutu, a portrait of the Ife royal princess Adetutu Ademiluyi painted in 1974 by the Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu, leads Bonhams Africa Now sale in London on Wednesday 28 February. In a pioneering move, the sale will be broadcast live to a Bonhams auction event in Lagos, where bidders will be able to participate in real time. This will also be the first ever evening sale of Contemporary African Art.

Enwonwu painted three versions of Tutu during 1973–74, and the image became a symbol of national reconciliation for a country struggling for unity in the wake of the Nigerian–Biafran conflict of the late 1960s. All three paintings had been considered lost until the discovery of the current picture for sale.

Writing in the spring edition of Bonhams Magazine, the Nigerian-born Booker Prize winning novelist Ben Okri, said, "It amounts to the most significant discovery in contemporary African art in over fifty years. It is the only authentic Tutu, the equivalent of some rare archaeological find. It is a cause for celebration, a potentially transforming moment in the world of art."

The series was of great personal significance to Enwonwu. The first painting, executed in 1973, remained in the artist's studio until his death in 1994. It was lost at some point after that, and its current whereabouts are unknown. The location of the third Tutu painting is also a mystery, leaving the work for sale at Bonhams as the only known example of the image.

Bonham's Director of Modern African Art, Giles Peppiatt said, "The portrait of Tutu is a national icon in Nigeria, and of huge cultural significance. It is very exciting to have discovered the only painting of the series that we now know still exists. Its appearance on the market is a momentous event and we expect it to generate enormous interest."

The sale also includes:

• Negritude also by Enwonwu, estimated at £60,000-90,000. This gouache explores the ideology of 'Negritude'; a movement that sought to foster black pride and throw off the cultural influences of European colonisation.

• At the Ancestors' Conference by the Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui, estimated at £20,000-30,000. It is part of the Ancestor series, a group of figurative sculptures the artist executed in 1995.

• A Throne for Two Kings by the Mozambican Gonçalo Mabunda, estimated at £10,000-15,000. The artist grew up at the height of the civil war that ravaged Mozambique from 1977- 1995, an experience reflected in his work. A Throne for Two Kings has been constructed from gun parts and bullet casings which have been welded into a careful decorative arrangement.

The auction will also include six artworks originally in the collection of the renowned art patron and philanthropist, Jean Pigozzi. When Pigozzi visited the seminal exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Magiciens de la Terre, in 1989, he was greatly excited by a number of works by contemporary African artists, many of whom had never before exhibited overseas.

Over the following years, Pigozzi built the most extensive private collection of contemporary African art, part of which he sold in 1999 to fund the Jean Pigozzi Prize for Contemporary African Art - awarded to a sub-Saharan contemporary painter, sculptor or photographer.