[1][2] Ové first installed the work in the courtyard of Somerset House in London, as part of the 2016 edition of the contemporary African art fair 1:54.

[4] Ové was inspired by a meter-tall wooden sculpture his father, Horace Ové, obtained in Kenya in the early 1970s, and attempted to create "a work that spoke about Africa's diaspora, what it is to be an African born away from the continent" by replicating and enlarging the figure into a group of massive graphite sculptures, "almost as a tribe out of context.

"[5] The work was then installed elsewhere in England, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from April 2017 - June 2018, doubling the number of figures to eighty.

[6][7] A 40-figure version was installed at the New Art Centre in East Winterslow, Wiltshire, England in June 2019.

[8] From July – November 2019, it was installed in the B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, interspersed with several bronzes by the 19th-century French sculptor Auguste Rodin.