Hyperallgeric highlights The Conditions of the Archive: FESTAC 77 as a must-attend event. Curator and scholar Oluremi Onabanjo will be in conversation with visual artist and photographer Marilyn Nance, who captured the most extensive archive of the influential festival.
Hyperallergic highlights "The Conditions of the Archive: FESTAC 77"

This photograph of 23 year old artist Marilyn Nance was made in January 1977 in the sculpture garden of the art school of the Yaba Institute of Technology (*Now Yaba College of Technology) in Lagos, Nigeria. Nance is wearing a tee shirt that she designed and marketed proclaiming that « OKRA IS AN AFRICAN WORD »