“Enduring with Dignity: Akua’s Surviving Children” is an essay about El Anatsui’s piece of art called Akua’s Last Children. Throughout the essay, Leanna Stoufer provides deep description of the piece to her readers. In addition to the illustration, the author says how there are 27 pieces of driftwood with metal brackets restricting them to a platform. All 27 of the driftwood pieces have heads made with smaller wood pieces. The heads seem to all be looking forward. However, there is one head in the front that is looking the complete opposite way of the others. Stoufer then goes on to explain the true meaning of Anatsui’s artwork. The author tells readers that “The story they [the driftwoods] tell is deeply moving” (5). El’s art represents African
