On the left, a woman wearing a red skirt and a blue top is standing. A baboon is giving her flowers, while two more baboons observe, sitting on the ground.

One unsurprising but lovely feature of Ethiopian-Eritrean Christianity is that monkeys occasionally play a prominent role in the stories about the saints 🐒

Ethiopia, 18th c. #monkey #africanchristianity #afticanart

contemporary African art, watercolor painting in portrait orientation, trio of standing giraffes in native landscape, realistic-looking giraffes are juxtaposed with an abstract multicolor watercolor background in style typical of this artist

For #WorldGiraffeDay 🦒:
Joseph Thiongo (Kenya, b. 1967)
#Giraffes in Color
Watercolor & ink on paper, 7.5″ x 11″ (19 x 28 cm)
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#AfticanArt