African solutions: Lagos art fair tackles climate and culture

LAGOS : A toddler on a bike and well-heeled women in bright African fabric tunics made their way past screens flashing infrared images of a dystopian future in which simulated plants and flowers replace the real thing destroyed by climate change.

The fair's theme"Who Will Gather Under the Baobab Tree?" aimed to tap into African wisdom to address problems from climate change to political crises. Just beyond the fair, flooding has laid farmland to waste and displaced more than a million. Desertification has deepened conflict in Nigeria's agriculturally-rich middle belt. And elsewhere in Africa, drought has increased food insecurity.

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