Adaeze's Workshop

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Adaeze is a sculptor in 1880s Lagos, fighting to preserve Benin's artistic traditions during colonial occupation. What does her workshop look like? What does she create, and what is at stake?

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Guidelines: Must be historically grounded in the actual Benin Kingdom artistic tradition — bronze casting, ivory carving, etc. Adaeze is an artist-activist whose work is an act of resistance.

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Zara Hussain912

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Adaeze's workshop smells of charcoal and beeswax. She works at night, when the British administrators are asleep and can't hear the bellows. Each bronze she casts contains a hidden symbol — a message in a visual language the colonizers don't recognize because they never bothered to learn it. Her sculptures are correspondence. Her art is espionage.

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