African Voices

SHOW #28

Leslie Lumeh

The artwork of Liberian artist Leslie Lumeh, depicting the atrocities of Liberia’s civil war, made him unpopular with the regime of President Charles Taylor, and the self-taught painter was forced to flee Liberia during the conflict. But Lumeh returned home in 2005 and opened the country’s first art gallery in the capital Monrovia. Lumeh is now a cartoonist for Monrovia’s Daily Observer, and he is founder and chairman of the Liberia Artists Association.