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A Pictorial History of Africa: Insights from Ancient Figurative Art. (opens in new tab)

While travelling through West Africa between 1908 and 1910, the German ethnographer Leo Frobenius visited the city of Ife (in S.W Nigeria), where he had heard accounts of a remarkable statue of the sea deity Olokun.

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