shikra

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Specialist for traditional and contemporary African art

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shikra offers a wide selection of carefully selected traditional and contemporary art from every region of Africa. The online-gallery offers over one thousand pieces of African art as well as rare and difficult to find African art books.

shikra owner Eric Makin has visited approximately 30 African countries in over 25 years of travelling, several of which he has visited numerous times.

Works from many of Africa’s leading contemporary artists including Twins Seven Seven, George Lilanga and Romuald Hazoumé are represented, as well as traditional masks and figures, some of which date back to the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.