Lekki Massacre

Artist: Elliott Osagioduwa Amadasun
Title: Lekki Massacre, 2020
Medium: Mixed Media


The caricatures of the then President Muhammadu Buhari and his successor, President Bola Tinubu, re-emerged in this work by Elliott Amadasun titled, “Lekki massacre, 2020.” It’s a polymorphous artform from the illustrations of Buhari aiming a gun, Tinubu giving an order with his right hand, emblematic dumping of the government-owned television station, Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), into a waste bin, tyre burning to heroic right fist clenching by a youth, they capture the message of the mixed work.

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