Those who hanker after West Africa should head down to the British Museum, where a new exhibition highlights the extraordinary sculpture work of the Kingdom of Ife. During the 12th-15th centuries, Ife (now south-west Nigeria) was a powerful, cosmopolitan and wealthy city-state, and its artists developed a refined and highly naturalistic sculptural tradition in stone, terracotta, brass and copper, creating a style unlike anything in Africa at the time.
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