A Lobi sculpture of the Kampti region, Burkina Faso; signs of age and ritual use. Certificate of origin and provenance.

In interviews I did with Kilite in the last five years before his death, I asked him several times: "Why do the male figures you carve always have this "colon look" even though the time of colonisation is more than 50 years ago?" His answer: "My sculptures have nothing to do with the time of colonisation. Since independence, Africans look the way I carve them. They are Africans and not Europeans." "So they are not so-called "colon" sculptures? "Yes, it's true, all my male sculptures have nothing to do with the colonisation period. I carve Africans."

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Height: 53 cm
Weight: 3 kg