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Hand-painted Ads in Guinea-Bissau

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Arts & Culture, Ideas
Photo by Manuel Bivar on Buala (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5) [1]

Photo by Manuel Bivar on Buala (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5)

In Guinea-Bissau “there is a real market of experts on painting wall advertisements”, says landscape architect Manuel Bivar. In 2011, he shared a collection [2] of photos featuring hand-painted ads from Guinean shops on the African contemporary culture website, Buala.