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This document discusses the socio-religious characteristics of African traditional arts and their unique symbolic communication. It notes that African traditional arts were not meant as aesthetic objects but had religious and ideological meanings within their cultural contexts. The arts embodied myths and depicted sacred and spiritual concepts through symbolic forms that were controlled by ideology rather than Western notions of artistic beauty or proportion. Interpreting these arts requires understanding t

Author

Sahu Ra

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EN