Postkolonialne hybrydy. Współcześni artyści nigeryjscy wobec problemu tożsamości i historii

Abstract

Contemporary artists, who came from Nigeria, live between the western world and Africa. The article discusses some problems related postcolonial history and artistic and hybridized identity in the creativity of Yinka Shonibare, Sokari Douglas Camp and Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze. These artists use the western resources of artistic expression, motives and formal solutions. But in their artworks is contained “Africanness”. They take issues of ethnic, political and social identity, and some problems of economic, ecological correlation Africa (Nigeria) with West. Yinka Shonibare and Sokari Douglas Camp emigrated to Great Britain in 80s during the Civil War in Nigeria. Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze grew up in the Great Britain and United States. Their identity is hybridized; their identity consists of elements of western and nigerian culture. Shonibare, Camp and Amanze make reframing global culture, visualize colonial history, while stressing own identity and origin.