Wits Art Museum

This guide to the Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg follows the painter Gerard Sekoto, playing jazz and spirituals in a Paris nightclub after 1947 to earn enough to eat, decades into a self-imposed exile he told himself was temporary. It traces his early paintings of township life before he left, and the honorary doctorate the University of the Witwatersrand offered him in 1989 in a bid to bring him home. Look closely at the sketches on the walls around you, quick studies of faces and streets from those nightclub years.