colonization
Celebrating the benefits of colonization Buckets of blood will never suffice To match the bloodbath of Columbus genocide By appointment of a Queen, a King and a Lord One of our ‘civilized’ gold fever viral spells I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Notting Hill Carnival is the mix of generations and cultures It was designed by Claudia Jones Cumberbatch as such To ease the relations between communities bringing them together Racist murder and attacks against the black community led to riots Carnival was the best solution in a post-war England fraught with tensions And widespread racial prejudice […]
The tip of the black iceberg Black Lives Matter is not new The Fight has been going on Under different slogans and names It stems from a common history Genocide, Colonization, Slavery Supremacism and Racism Justice in the name of one But for all the victims of racism The many unknown soldiers… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Dramatically and pandemically masked A beautiful Black Lives Matter protester Marching down Park Lane with the angry crowd The pandemic of fear has brought many countries to a standstill With far reaching consequences for the peoples But this is nothing compared to the slave trade genocide The colonization, the segregation and the supremacism they fostered […]
Can we still remember the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 And MLK like a Christ leading the way to his own sacrifice for justice It looks like we have walked backwards and Alabama swallowed the USA The political correctness and the cancel culture are just grotesque masks To cover a deep rooted prejudice that […]
A dash of Afro-Caribbean colors in a crowded street Flashing the hoodie or the weaving is a claim to full emancipation There is no going back, black people exact their soft revenge For centuries deported, murdered, enslaved, invaded and robbed Granted an independence not worth the paper, no reparations The time of reckoning will come, […]
She stands here covered with paint undaunted and defiant The incarnation of the spirit of Masquerade to claim her freedom We still live in the legacy of the slave trade and the colonies It will not go away until that part of the world seeks the Pardon from the other And sincerely repent for the […]
Famous ‘Obo’ (Emperor) head dating from the Benin Empire (ca 13th Century) The Benin Empire encompassed today’s Nigeria and can be dated back to 1246 It was ‘annexed’ in 1897 by the British Empire and the ‘Obo’ deported From the ‘Sainsbury Collection’ in residence at the British Museum Ingloriously representing thirty thousand years of civilization […]
Beautiful and fresh morning in Niamey after a rainy night Vendors sell the staples of everyday life, even here deep in the heart of Africa Cigarettes, bread and telephone top-ups, a very strange gift in the name of civilization They seem to be the only things left by centuries of colonization and slave trade A […]