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Ayodeji Rotinwa

Ayodeji Rotinwa is a Nigerian writer and critic who covers the intersection of visual art, culture, politics and social justice across West Africa. He has been published by the New York Times, National Geographic, The Art Newspaper, Financial Times, Artforum, amongst others. 

Opinion
What Does the Future Hold for Nigeria?

After the most contested elections since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, what should Nigeria’s artists and citizens expect from their new Trumpian government?

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa |
Exhibition Reviews , Opinion , Reviews Across The World
Gabrielle Goliath’s Inquiry into Loss, Memory and Mourning

At Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, the artist presents a video that addresses the issue of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa |
Reviews
How Abdoulaye Konaté Knits Together West African Cultural Heritage

At Gallery 1957, Accra, the artist’s use of both Ghanaian Kente and Malian textile traditions ‘offers new possibilities for the exchange of cultural knowledge’

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa |
Opinion
To Stop the Auction of Looted Art, International Law Must Change

The Christie’s Paris sale of two stolen Igbo sculptures is proof of a racist double standard in European restitution law

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa |
Opinion
Nigeria’s Artists Fight Back Against the Oil Industry

Complicating the ‘disaster narratives’ associated with the Niger Delta by attending to the local ecology, and those responsible for defiling it

BY Ayodeji Rotinwa |