African folklore art

For African slaves, folk tales were a way of remembering their past and keeping their culture alive.

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Publisher: Waveland Press (1990)

Anansi, the trickster from the folktales of the Ashanti of West Africa, takes the shape of a spider who goes to the sky god to buy his stories to share with the world.

Portraits of Ethiopia's Suri tribe show the age-old tradition of inserting clay plates into their bottom lips as a status symbol. The tribe inhabit the mountains of the Great Rift Valley in south-western Ethiopia.

Character inspired on african tribes, painted in photoshop