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Emmanuel Eni
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Emmanuel Eni (born 1967) is a Nigerian-born artist and poet. He works in various mediums including painting, sculpture, and performance art.
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I have united all aspects of art which I practise under my discovered “Contemporary Barock Art” which has poetry and philosophy as the meeting point in my skill and inspiration in sculpture, painting, installation art, performance and music.
ENDSARS is a movement of dis-satisfied Nigerians.Until the government on Nigeria gives reasonable remedies to these demands there will be more intense agitation and civil strife. Endsars is also flames from the burning questions and which in some major quarters in Nigeria and their stringent call for restructuring of the nation.
A country with a suppressed people cannot have a government that survives if suppression remains.It is best when the government makes brave moves to bring all bad eggs in government to justice by showing them the book. Nigerians want to see punishment for looters and very many such scape-goats.
Living and dying for motherland is a kind of mindset that an opportunistic agitating leader might mis-use. This is the bedrock of most reclusive like socialist and communistic governments. Democracy must be liberal and the citizens like their leaders must grow a liberal mindset of responsibly advancing the nation, without Kamikatze doctrines on both sides.
Nigerian youths are more sensible than in the past. They have forfeited the unwittingly corrupt and vain nature of some the older generation and seem to be talking in a united tone and voice.
No, I was never an Andrew, I just had and still have a lot of desire to carry my body as well and as far as my mind, doing all in my might to spread African civilisation to the world and learn more about the entire world and mankind.
Thinking of it, it is rather where my work finds me at the particular time, as much as it keeps me pleasantly entangled, progressive and busy.
Israel and Palestine wars and conflict is the key war example that can apply as example with many characteristics in common as in their wars. In my installation, the concrete visual presence of the colossal dynamite contraption wall is to confront the viewer and bring them face to face with happenings of the war, instead of the safe distance of the news from Television and radio.
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Category:1967 births
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Category:Sculptors from Nigeria
Category:Poets from Nigeria