This book examines the Yoruba Avant Garde artists of the modern era. It
highlights an important, but underrepresented and under-acknowledged cadre of
artistic personalities in the Yoruba cultural traditions known as, Are. Are, are
trailblazers, and cultural innovators, like their French counterparts, the Avant
Garde, who must set, of necessity, a new artistic agenda for others to emulate. Our
goal is to situate these artists within the dialectics of modernism and postmodernist
currents and how, their artistic impulses intersect with colonial and postcolonial
discourses in modern Yoruba society.