colonization
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 […]
Symbols as a stark reminder of the plagues of colonization Leopold II’s rubber vine genocidal craze, the forever more money and land The churches supported the colonization in the name of evangelisation Advocating white man’s supremacy and condoning slavery Missionaries pretended to be more than just a position “When they came to Africa they had the Bible […]