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Che Walters Angu was born in 1980, a native of Mazam District in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. The artist’s studio is in the NW city of Bamenda which has since 2017 found itself at the very center of a brutal civil war.
There are not a lot of places more perfectly remote where a gifted artist seeking to emerge from obscurity faces greater obstacles.
The artist – who autographs his work, Angu Walters – got his start as a student of the noted American-born Cameroonian artist Nzante Spee.
Wikipedia characterizes Spee’s paintings, which could as well be applied to Angu, thusly, “His style, from cubism to surrealism and addressed to a naïve caricature but full with provocative humor culminates in a pictorial world where all these expressions are mixed in the so-called melting age aesthetic.”
Long before the war, Angu – who favors traditional African music – was a member of the “Melting Age Band, MAB” led by the late Spee.
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