ENGLISHMAN IN BENIN CITY: (Part Thirty-Three).

Madam Ngu looked at my most recent painting and from the expression on her face, I could see that she did not like it.

She sat on the big chair in the center of my studio in the Ekenwan campus. I had arranged my paintings around the wall as she requested, ready for her critique.

“Muyo,” she said, “you need more life drawing classes.”

“Yes, madam,” I responded.