Hello guys it’s @eminentsam48 and today I will be taking you all thru some interesting artifact around my school, …
Well, for the record am a student of the prestigious university of uyo, uyo Akwa-Ibom state Nigeria, currently in my finals, am a lover of arts especially when it has to do with music, drama, poetry, sculptures, basically because its depict creativity and a sense of genuine performance,
Today I decided to take you all thru my schools Town campus tour on some of my most admired statues what they all depicts, anyways you re free to view it on your own perspectives and personalized it if you wish,
UNIVERSITY OF UYO TOWN CAMPUS MAIN ENTRANCE
ALSO THIS ME AT THE PRIVATE ENTRANCE
Okay straight up here I’ll take you to the
department of FINE AND INDUSTRIAL ART where you get to feed your eyes to exclusive artifacts
This big guy lets call him "GOD OF WAR" rescues a child probably abandon by the parents as he fights on.
Here’s another MORTAL MECHANICAL MAN, well he kinda reminds me of the terminator series I loved watching so much, let’s say he’s God of the universe fixing the planet with the moon in his hands half man, half machine,... cool right?
here’s an African lady with her water pot in the stream probably caught up in her own thought of the moment say thinking about her husband at the war front, or maybe the complexity of life’s omen , before civilization hits Africa in the early 90's.
before civilization came to Africa and the western folks came in, this was mainly the line of trade apart from farm produce, A MAN WEAVING A BASKET till date this basket is till handy most traders, market women use it to carry tomatoes, pepper, onion and other stuff to the market for sale
Its common in Africa even till date in some rural communities for chiefs to fight over the throne, who will be the next king to rule the land, this sculpture depicts chiefs fighting over the throne, they rather prefer “A STONE ON THE THRONE” instead of any of them seating on it,, how funny hahaha 😂😂😂
Here’s a scenario where a police office seriously molesting a preacher in the earlier days of missionaries in Africa most part of Africa did not embrace the new religion so most times missionaries find them selves in situation like this
This is an uta blower in Ibibio land……… Ibibio land is a efik speaking tribe in Akwa ibom state Nigeria, the uta is a musical instrument and the person who blows it must be skilled it, as it a very important musical piece especially in a traditional ceremonial setting
This little guy trying to fixed the planet with his hammer and chisel , good one tho, just wishing we could individually try to do this from our own little corner the world ‘d be a better place, don’t you think so?
Probably drained from from studies stressed out tired and weary , this sculpture depicts academic stress especially during exam period were one has to study more in other to get good grades,
Adaptation of ancient Ibibio mask to cubism, cubism is a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial element especially by display several aspect of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects
Child abuse by the mother, this is still common till today in Africa, were children are beaten or shouted at, this mother uses a frying pan to beat the child probably over what the child did or didn’t do,
Cultism is very common in most higher institution, , most youngster engage in this because of Say protection , peer pressure, among other vices, this sculpture depicts the adverse effect or say consequence of engaging in such act
This sculpture of a man who struggling real hard to make progress or advance in life but is stagnant, rooted at a spot, looking down at the foot you see the root of the tree twisting round his leg, no matter how hard he pull the tree is deep rooted to the ground. This is mostly common in Africa maybe some kind of spell or enchantment has been done.
A pictorial representation of Nigeria’s many divers cultures and ethnicity, but still we are united in Diversity
This is a cultural mullato, it means one that is born of, or a breed of two distinct cultures, in this case the man combines both English outfit and cultural attire together
A sculpture depicting a degradation of boko haram insurgency, bad day for this guy, probably when he was about to lunch his missile, the bullet got to him first, and that was the end of the insurgent
A sculptural representation of Ibibio mask
Peace after war, whats the point of fighting when we could have settled this amicably. Too bad for the duos as they are badly injured, observe closely
Usobo, is a complete traditional attire of a real native of effik Ibibio man in akwa ibom Nigeria
The Joy of education is that after all the stress and hard times faced in higher institution one gets to make it to the top , A LADY AT HER GRADUATIION DAY
BREAKING FREE FROM CHAINS OF BONDAGE
This sculpture represent a two sided person , one part his a pastor, the other a direct opposite of himself
Heres a guy who is freelancing with his tap, headphones on, meanwhile he's suppose to be studying at the time, this THE EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGY ON EDUCATION
A MOTHER OF TWIN CRYING BITTERLY AFTER HER TWIN WERE KILLED this was the predominate case in Africa especially Nigeria before the coming of Marry selessor who stop the killings, telling the locals that twins were gift from God not some sort of abominatrion they thought of as the time,
A hiphop artist doing his thing on stage nice guy, don’t you think?
A typical Ibibio dancer on stage with her complete dance attire
This is sculpture depicts the effect of the coronavitus era in 2019-2020 on education, bringing about the popularity of the e-learning system especially in Africa
That’s all I hope you liked our little adventure for today, hope I didn’t bore you, do well to let me know which of these sculptures are ypour favorite and also drop an upvote ….thats some sort of encouragement. Thankyou and I love you all at heart.
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Beautiful sculptures! Thank you for the tour in you universyity🙏
am glad you liked it......thankyou😊😊
this reminds me way back when I was still in school, thanks for sharing