Angu Walters was born in 1980, a native of the Mezam District in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. The artist’s studio is in the NW city of Bamenda which has since 2017 found itself at the very center of a brutal civil war.

There are not a lot of places more perfectly remote where a gifted artist seeking to emerge from obscurity faces greater obstacles.

The artist got his start as a student of the noted Cameroonian-American artist Nzante Spee. Wikipedia characterizes Spee’s African paintings, which could as well be applied to Angu, thusly, “His style, from cubism to surrealism and addressed to a naïve caricature but full with provocative humour, culminates in a pictorial world where all these expressions are mixed in the so-called melting age aesthetic.”