Wrote on toilet paper in solitary confinement and became Africa's first Nobel laureate in literature
A playwright who held up a radio station to stop a rigged election broadcast, spent twenty-two months in detention during Nigeria's civil war and…
Has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric hospital since 1977 and walks across the road to her studio every day
Haunted by hallucinations since childhood, she turned them into dots, nets and mirrored rooms, survived years of poverty and neglect in New York, and…
Called a paper architect for twenty years because nobody would build her designs
She won competitions that were then cancelled and saw a decade pass with almost nothing built, before her sweeping buildings appeared around the…
A township child turned photographer whose life's negatives were stolen in a targeted burglary
Raised by a domestic worker in a Durban township, they trained under a leading documentary photographer and built a body of portraits of Black LGBTQ…
