Where Stross scorned the use of physical adornment for the sake of effect, his policy minister embraced the concept.

This show forgoes the figurative sculptures and masks that made African art a foundation of Western modernism to concentrate on supposedly humbler stuff, objects of physical adornment and daily use.

It does this by revealing the overriding unity of visual material in most African cultures, the seamless progression from objects of physical adornment to those of mundane use to those of spiritual worship.