kosisochukwu nnebe

1. Activation in Vrijthof Square, Maastricht, 2025 (photo by artist)
2. Joy in front of her POS stand, Lagos, 2025 (photo by Ofem Ubi)
3-4. Wall-sculpture at Jan van Eyck Academie, 2025, hand-dyed cotton and nylon fabric, metal armature, pvc banners, 240 x 150 x 80cm (photos by artist)
5-9. Installation view at Visual Arts Center of Clarington, 2026, wall-scultpure, standing sculpture, radio, two-channel video installation, vinyl print (photos by LF Documentation)

In his book “Africa in the Global Economy: Capital Flight, Enablers, and Decolonial Responses”, Gorden Moyo notes that “the unpalatable historical and present truth is that Africa was coercively integrated into the global economy during colonial encounters”. What results is a global financial architecture that lubricates outflows of capital and makes inflows perpetually insufficient.

POS Available Here repurposes the aesthetics and functionality of the point-of-sale (POS) stands commonly found throughout Nigerian — essential sites of money circulation in the country — to re-route money from the Global North to Lagos as a form of reparations. Here, visual elements of POS stands —the mismatched and layered fabrics, the posters, the company logos—become the vehicle for telling a different story about Nigeria’s integration into global economic and financial systems.

The company logos seen everywhere on POS umbrellas in Lagos — Maggi, Coca-Cola, Milo — mirror the broader relationship between the country and multinational corporations: one of staking ownership and participation only under conditions of maximum profit extraction. The posters, on the other hand, are adapted to a Dutch context, playing with the dual translation of “debt”and “guilt” as “schuld”. Featured on the bottom are the logos of Dutch banks that have issued apologies for their involvement in the slave trade but refuse to offer financial compensation. The project asks: if states and multinational corporations are unwilling to engage, what then is the role of individuals?

Rather than mere representation, POS Available Here turns financial infrastructure into a stage and financial transactions into performance. Nnebe takes on the role of POS agent, taking payments from visitors using a customized payment terminal and sending the money back to the POS agents she worked with in Lagos as a form of reparations and mutual aid.

As of January 2026, Nnebe has raised over €800 operating her POS stand in the Netherlands and Canada, both within and outside gallery walls.

More information available here.

The artist would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario for producing the ‘We Have The Cure’ exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Clarington in 2026.