Camera model:     Canon EOS 6D

F-stop:                     f/3.2

Exposure time:      1/125 sec.

ISO speed:              ISO – 100

Focal length:           50mm

Light setup:             Natural Light With Diffuser 

Description on “Animguaseɛ (Shame)”

A faceless, bandaged figure stands by the sea, the identity replaced by a mirror that now reflects fragments of music notes drawn from the burning book they hold. The outsider’s flame consumes more than paper; it devours memory, voice, and rhythm.
The mirrored music notes suggest a silenced score, the stolen harmony of Africa’s story, rewritten through colonial scripts. Yet even as the book burns, the notes persist in reflection, echoing the resilience of culture, rhythm, and oral tradition.

They become both lament and resistance: a reminder that though history attempted to mute Africa, our identity still sings through memory, art, and spirit.

“Animguaseɛ” confronts inherited shame and distortion, but within the fire and reflected notes lies an invitation, to unlearn imposed dissonance, to reclaim our own melody, and to compose anew the song of who we are.