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St. Kimbaveta Holding Her Baby Son, acrylics and fabrics on canvas, 91x91cm, 2025
By Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi ,2025
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“Sometimes African women have shown enormous courage and readiness for martyrdom in defence of religious ideas. Back in the year 1706 a woman in Central Africa was burnt at the stake holding her bab
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Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi
Nigeria
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Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi is a Professor of Painting and African Art History at University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he has taught art, art history and theory since 1994. He was a Visiting Associate Prof
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"St. Kimbaveta Holding Her Baby Son": A Visually Arresting Tribute to African Resistance and Reclamation
In "St. Kimbaveta Holding Her Baby Son", Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi presents a visually arresting and symbolically rich tribute to Donna Beatrice, also known as Kimbaveta—a Central African prophetess and martyr who was executed in 1706 for her radical reinterpretation of Christianity. The painting is a
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"St. Kimbaveta Holding Her Baby Son": A Visually Arresting Tribute to African Resistance and Reclamation
SUMMARY
In "St. Kimbaveta Holding Her Baby Son", Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi presents a visually arresting and symbolically rich tribute to Donna Beatrice, also known as Kimbaveta—a Central African prophetess and martyr who was executed in 1706 for her radical reinterpretation of Christianity. The painting is a
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