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The Aunties series celebrates the wisdom and authority that comes with age and experience and denies our cultural impulse to "cover up" the older, venerable body.

Their un-self-conscious, ungraceful gestures express total ease, reinforcing a sense of every day normalcy within these worlds.

Teetering on the edge of geometric, abstract shapes, the bare-bones landscape featured in several paintings conjures an idea of place more than it describes a physical location.

Yet while the paintings resist an antiquated tone, the imagery brings to mind an ancient earth-mother archetype, within whom authority and flesh are intrinsically bound.

In fact, I can't help but read this entire body of work as, in part, a tremendous response to our culture's unbalanced valuation of women.

One day, it will happen to your own too, if you think you have money.

The social media sphere has been on fire as Nigerians have continued to express their anger over a woman who allegedly stripped her 13-year-old niece naked and threw her into the streets.

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and you should have seen the vitriol in the comment threads of online articles about the painting, the whining and bitching about "why do I have to look at this woman? Kurugh, a human rights activist, narrated that on interrogating the girl, she confessed that her aunt had been in the habit of beating and stripping her naked on the slightest provocation, knowing that she had no place to run to as she had lost her parents.

A little girl of 13 years staying with her aunty in Gboko-South has always been beaten by her aunty every day that passes.

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