How does an artist work out of and from a tradition that has colonized
             his or her people' By colonizing one's people, one also colonizes the art
             of one's people. Indeed, through the act of colonization itself, a nation
             such as Britain has deemed an African's very self hood, very person not to
             be part of the artistic production of tradition, but merely an object of
             exploitation. African artists almost as a whole must grapple with the fact
             that their nation has been oppressed and colonized by Western forces, yet
             many of these artists also wish to draw upon the rich artistic resources of
             Moreover, these African artists do not wish to merely recopy and
             recapitulate old, African forms of art, nor could they, anymore than they
             could recopy and recapitulate aspects of African tribal art within their
             own social experience. Such African artists currently live in a world of
             modern commerce that valorizes the individual artistic experience, as
             opposed to the communal and tribal tradition that produced most traditional
             works of African art. They must appropriate both the West and their
             African pasts anew, to create works that are creative in their syncretism,
             and representative of both traditionsâ€"not an easy task.
             African artists cannot entirely embrace the West, nor can they
             entirely reject it if they wish to move forward in their own nation's art,
             in their own self-expression as an artist in and individualistic and
             Western-influenced world, and also to profit personally as all artists must
             on some level. Rather than attempt to reconfigure their own traditions,
             many African artists have approached Western art and culture in a spirit of
             parody and satire, familiar tools of the oppressed to communicate their
             displeasure with humor. Also, African artists whom are betwixt and between
             cultures, located both in colonial nations and in cultural communities that
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