A female Lobi sculpture of the Bonko sculptor Pale Nokabré, the son of Pale Hikararaté. Bonko is a village about 10 km from Gaoua, a small town in the destrict of Poni in Southern Burkina Faso, where I lived for about 1 1/2 year during making researches in in 2012 - 2014.
Nowadays it is not possible to visit this part of the Lobi country anymore, because it is dominated by terrorists. Lit. Wolfgang Jaenicke, A Lobi Carver of Bonko, Pale Nokabré and two works of his father Pale Hikaraté