Ghanaian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako creates intricate Afrofuturistic sculptures using exclusively black LEGO bricks. His work explores African diaspora mythology, folklore, and cultural phenomena, with recent series drawing inspiration from ceremonial masks, interstellar travel, and geometric forms.
Ghanaian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako presents 'Building Black Civilisations – The Nile 3025 CE' at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, an exhibition of monumental sculptures constructed entirely from black LEGO elements. The works imagine a liberated Africa in the year 3025, merging ancient Nile civilizations with Afrofuturist visions of technological transcendence and ancestral memory. In an interview with ART AFRICA, Nimako discusses how his practice uses the cultural polarity of LEGO—a childhood toy—to build serious, Black-centered narratives that resist historical erasure and propose expansive futures for the African continent.