Waja Statue, Nigeria, c. 1950

Waja sculptures are used by members of Mam society, and are concerned with human fertility and crops. Waja art, like that of their neighbours the Chamba, Jukun, Mamiya and Wurkun of the upper Benue River in northern Nigeria, received little attention until the 1960s, and attributions of individual sculptures to one group or another can be uncertain. Height: 35 cm Reproduced: Catalogue “Africa Babel: The Art of a Continent”, p. 78
Exhibitions:
2022-2024 Island of Fuerteventura “Art Africa: Ancestral Light”. Lighthouse of the Entallada. Cabildo of Fuerteventura.
2021-2022 Panama City. Government of Panama. “Art Africa: the spirit of the ancestors”. Ministry of Culture Headquarters. Casco Viejo.
2019-2020 Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Caja Canarias Foundation. “Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent”. Headquarters Plaza Patriotismo.
2013-2015 Museum of Art of Africa and Oceania (Madao). La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia.
2005 “Black Africa”, Leather Museum.
2004 “Black Africa”. Caixa Laietana Foundation, Barcelona. Main exhibition hall