editorial: From The Editor

This issue of Wacana Seni covers a broad range of topics regarding the traditional and newlycreated arts and design of Africa and Asia. Sweet Ufumwen Ebeigbe s article The RhetoricalFunction of Portraits from Benin (Nigeria), shows that the Benin portraits of Africa haveunique styles, aesthetics, iconography and functions, that make them different from Westernportraits. Through this study, Ebeigbe affirms that African art is not devoid of portraits assome would argue.