Ernesto Shikhani was an artist from Mozambique who was born in an unknown year. He began his artistic training in Mozambique with sculpture, guided by the Portuguese master Lobo Fernandes. He later expanded his practice to also focus on painting. Shikhani's work is marked by a bold hybridity, fusing traditional Mozambican artistic practices with contemporary approaches to artmaking. His work often addressed social injustices and put his art to the service of a nascent nationalism. Many of his works were censored by the Portuguese Intelligence Police (PIDE) who worked under the aegis of a government still caught in the grip of the religious and racist maxims prevalent in this period. The present work, created in 1977, represents one of the b...