Egúngún Walls

These magnificent walls were created by Ojewale Amoo, one of the first artisans recruited by Susanne Wenger to work on her first shrine in Òṣogbo, Ìdí Bàbá, in the late 1950s. Ojewale was a bricklayer by training and evolved into a master artist working in cement as well as carving wood sculptures.
The Egúngún walls were first created in the 1960s and then restored in 2010/11 by the elderly artists of the New Sacred Art Movement under the direction of artist, priest and adopted son of Susanne Wenger, Sangodare Ajala. Sadly, at the time of the restoration Ojewale Amoo was too elderly to be able to join in the work.
Further restoration took place in 2019 to stop the erosion of the gap of land between the road and the ledge where the Egúngún sculptures are located.