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AF GANG

Some years ago I designed a trio of mutant vigilantes from Cameroon

The idea was that they got powers from "Mami Wata" (Water Goddess) and they'd be fighting off colonizers in the 1930s

The masks are from the Bamileke and Fang tribes🇨🇲

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2023-02-05

Erykah Badu's search for her African ancestry led her to the Bamileke area, in Cameroon.

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2015-12-08