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These artists' reclaiming of the Black body in art is refiguring the conventions of portrait tradition with an approach that fiercely explores personal and timely questions. Appah, Boafo, Clottey and Donkor are four acclaimed Ghanaian artists who offer distinctive stylistic responses to portraiture. While Boafo’s alluring characters bear witness to the reawakening of the portrait tradition, Donkor looks back to history to untangle what makes an icon and a legend. Appah’s surrealist and figurative approach to portraiture references his upbringing in Accra. His otherworldly and ethereal …