When I read about the ten female performance artists and their activism, it was shocking and inspiring. Knowing how each of them demonstrated activism and freedom, I wish I could find an article about each of them.  Tania Bruguera’s performance art would have probably threatened the Cuban government for him to be arrested.  Tania’s artwork made me think of the musician Fela Anikulapo, who fights for complete liberation and real democracy. Due to the threat, his music posed to the Nigerian government and the killing of his mother by Nigerian soldiers in 1977, Fela was frequently detained and assaulted.

Furthermore, Maria Everlia Marmolejo’s artwork, in which she depicted the position of women and the “concurrent political oppression in her native Colombia”, really impressed me. The patriarchy has been one of the main contributors to women’s oppression and exploitation, which seems to never end. Women are consistently placed in a situation that encourages gender-based social role stereotyping.

In Nigeria, an annual ritual is carried out in Osun state, where a virgin woman leads a group of people through the city and then to the stream while bearing a calabash on her head that is said to contain a ritual used to appease the goddess.