Middle Eastern and African HistoryMiddle Eastern and African History Forum - Egypt, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and all nations of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Well for starters the work of the Ife is unique to them most forms of African art are distorted and therefore arent that realistic. Also even in Nigeria and west Africa sculpture is done unrealistically even the Yoruba do so and The Ife are ancestors to the modern Yoruba.