Jerry Buhari

In 1940, the American artist Jacob Lawrence commenced what is now widely regarded as a seminal visual narrative on the subject of migration: The Migration Series . This body of work, made up of sixty panels, chronicles the Great Migration, stimulated by the outbreak of World War I, during which over one million African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North in search of better socio-economic conditions. In Panel No. 1, Lawrence employs a dynamic interplay of colour, shape, and form to evoke a palpable sense of...