The western Sudanic Region have masks and figures representing legendary ancestors and religious sacrifices. The central Sudanic Region art includes mud architecture, embroidered textiles, elaborate coiffure, metal and beadwork jewelry,and leatherwork. This style usually doesn t represent anything special. The west Guinea Coast Region use masks and figures to police ceremonies,punish people for doing something wrong, settle land-owning problems and start or end wars. The Central Guinea Coast Region art employs aristocratic materials.
African art is traditionally essential and optimistic.
Without art, there would be no African culture.