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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Aug 3, 2020 • 1:58 pm ONE OF THE MOST THOUGH-PROVOKING figures in contemporary painting, Kenyan artist Michael Armitageprobes the politics and cultural history of East Africa. His fascinating narrative scenes have a mythical quality and abstract tendencies that draw on aesthetic tensions between European traditions and East African modernism.  In early July, Armitage told the Times…