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African visual traditions

African visual traditions encompass sculptural forms, textile patterns, masking practices, and architectural concepts that developed independently of European influence and carry their own internal logic about proportion, abstraction, and spiritual presence. Engaging with these traditions on their own terms—rather than through the colonial lens that labeled them 'primitive'—reshapes how we understand human creativity itself.

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