About

Sande, a women's initiation society found in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and the Ivory Coast is one society that initiates girls into adulthood by rituals including female circumcision, alleged to confer fertility, instill notions of morality and proper sexual comportment, and to maintain an interest in the well-being of its members throughout their lives.    The Sande society is said to champion women's social and political interests while promoting their solidarity just like the complimentary Poro society for men.

About the Artist

Onome Daniella Olotu is a Nigerian visual artist. She graduated with a Degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin in 2014. She undefined at the Universal studios of Art, Iganmu and she's currently working on a research-based series - the correlation between history and art.

With an art journey spanning over a decade, using African Masks, Onome's works have been created to shed light on African masks, particularly female masking and ancestorship, identity and skin bleaching and also a juxtaposition of indigenous hairstyles on 21st-century women.

Some of Onome's works are in the collection of Hydrocarbon Advisories and other private collectors in Nigeria and the UK. She has been involved in a myriad of exhibitions and fairs of which some include
Sankofa, Exhibition at the University of British Columbia, 2021; Exploring Covid-19 through the lens of Art; Vilsquare1 Virtual Art Exhibition, 2020; Life in my city art festival, 2019; and many more.