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Urban art in North-eastern Africa: The painter Keflä Haylä

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: An introduction is presented to the urban art, mostly of painted advertisements on public buildings, in Western and Northern Ethiopia, with a short reference to the rare cases observed in nearby Sudan. It is also an opportunity to consider some of the folk paintings housed in the Asosa Ethnographic Museum (Benishangul-Gumuz, Western Ethiopia) re-installed by the authors in 2006-2009. Finally, a painter of this type of art, as well as funeral portraits and traditional religious art, the Ethiopian Keflä Haylä, was interviewed in Asosa and a summary of his life and outstanding work in various contexts is also presented.

Source: Culture & History Digital Journal

DOI: 10.3989/chdj.2025.359

Authors: Víctor M. Fernández, Carmen Ortiz

Institutions: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto de Historia

Language: English

Topic: African history and culture analysis

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte

Awards: G4632073603, G5021444247, G6670105295