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African icons radiate in Cameroonian Fred Ebami's pop art
Inspired by Andy Warhol's pop-art movement, Franco-Cameroonian artist Fred Ebami is exploring African and African-American icons with colourful, digitally drawn portraits.
Whether it is singer Nina Simone, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, Nigerian afrobeat star Fela Kuti or Nobel winner Wole Soyinka, his works cut across the worlds of music, sports and literature.
Even his homage to Warhol's famed 1962 "Campbell's Soup Cans" painting brings the taste closer to home with his own "Pepper Soup", a spicy dish popular in Nigeria and Cameroon.
"African versions though... a bit more spicy!" he says jokingly, in an interview with AFP.
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