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The figures stand in the middle of the street, draped in Western, Eastern, and Southern African regalia and clothing. They are in the midst of stripping away the “European mindset” or the “mindset of the colonizer,” replacing it with an African body of principles and value systems. The fabrics connote ancestral roots-Kuba cloth from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and textiles from Samburu, Kenya; Lagos, Nigeria; and Windhoek, Namibia. The dog stands nearby for protection, a reference to the hyenas trained by the ‘Gadawan Kura’ of Nigeria (Hyena Handlers of Nigeria).