The charcoal, tar and ashes used to define the features of this tormented visage represent how oppression is synonymous with repression, abuse, brutality, harassment, coercion, manipulation, injustice and despotism.

The unrepentant and malevolent creature, a preparatory drawing of Nya’s work “Mburuchusi,” represents how the spirit of fear behind oppression is an insidious power whose sole objective is to attack, seize, capture and control the central command center of every human, the place from which every Man controls his internal and external environment, the place where reasoning, perception and understanding take place – the mind.

The print was produced on the occasion of “A true leader abides in his identity” a book that employs x-rays of Nya’s work, “Heir of Inheritance,” to explicate how fear robs Man of his true identity by stripping him of the knowledge of his royal heritage thereby reducing him to a timid, resentful, jealous, covetous, distrustful and hateful being with no control over his mind, will and emotions.