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Three African artists from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, each caught in inherited grievance, yet never wholly defined by their colonial past, each, rather, inspired by the power of painting to shapeshift reality, invoke the fantastical, reinvent an on-going and compromising norm – black abjection, black misrepresentation. Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Fauvism, and all importantly, flat painting, is the connective tissue, for while the three artists – Bob-Nosa Uwaboe, Nedia Were, Johannes Phokela – are markedly distinctive in their styles of painting, it is their flat …