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Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of their societies.

Art or Farce: Africa Renaissance Monument in Dakar is a Bold Statement of Either

Never before has a monument drawn so much publicity like the Renaissance Monument of Africa in Dakar. Whilst some art critics hail it as a symbol of power and robust resilience, other have termed it as an colossal expense with vague African features. Constructed of bronze, themonument is made of 3-centimetre thick metal sheets and depicts a family group emerging from a mountaintop: a full-lengt...

Dedan Kimathi Monument/ School of Fine Art, Kenyatta University

The sculpture stands on a pedestal placed in the middle of the junction of Kimathi Street and Mama Ngina Street, isolating it amidst the city traffic. The guard rails that surround it act as a nuisance in the approach, inconveniencing the overall placement and accessibility of the monument. Despite the physical separation, the sculpture is still visible; its position unscathed by shadow and the...

Jomo Kenyatta Statue/ James Butler

The Jomo Kenyatta statue is an 80-year-old British sculptor’s masterpiece by the name James Butler. The intricately double life-size, 12-foot, seated statue of President Jomo Kenyatta in 1969 with every detailed aspect to a birthmark on the president’s face and his trademark peep toe sandals.

Hamilton Fountain/ Judiciary Service Commission

The world over is chock-full of child study statues of various natures to commemorate various events. The naked boy is no different. It is a life-size statue of a young boy donning a wig and clutching a fish at arm to depict the face of justice as naked, blind and slippery like the fish at arm. Commissioned in the honor of lawyer Alexander George Hamilton who died in 1937, the statue is propped...