African value systems affirmed by Pitika Ntuli’s art

Pitika Ntuli’s landmark exhibition Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source), a result of three years' work, debuts at the virtual National Arts Festival. As a sangoma/healer, it was probably always on the cards that Ntuli would fashion art from animal bones (elephant, rhino, giraffe and horses), though beads, shells, chains, computer circuit boards, pins, animal skins, and marbles are also integrated in the works as part of a deliberate act of “picking up” interrupted African creative tra...