'How President Olusegun Obasanjo inspired my prize-winning work’ says Ndary Lo (1961-2017)

Senegalese sculptor, Ndary Lo who died of cancer, June 8, 2017, at the age of 56 years left behind sculptural identity reminiscent of the walking bronzes of the Swiss sculptor, Alberto Giacometti.

Ndary Lo. Pic c/o Charles Jousselncc

   But in 2008, at the Dak’Art, 

Biennale when he won the top prize, 

Ndary Lo disclosed how a former

 president of Nigeria, Olusegun 

Obasanjo inspired the forestation

 sculptures that gave him the win.

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