History
A few days away from the traditional date No move and no signs of a revival The year 2020 may well be the missing link The door wide open to extinction Black Lives Matter does not fulfil the same role As it is disconnected from African culture It may end up as a melting pot […]
The descendants of the slaves The excluded from the US Constitution ‘We the people’ was just a phrase in a preamble Words that rang like music, but empty words It was not a revolution but a power squabble of the rich Over robbed land worked by the black slaves We must always remember history and […]
Leaving Oxford Street the legend on wheels takes a turn into Soho A Mustang of the first generation of Ford’s famous pony-cars Named after a quarter-mile stud or a wartime fighter aircraft And the street is dotted with chewed out gums like venomous shrooms All this minute history held in a single fold of a […]
Done away the horns, chains and molasses of the past masquerades Meet the cyberpunk cosplay S&M ladies in leather nails and latex outfits New trends take over the sidelines the iconoclastic icons of tomorrow The virtual reality and the violent video games foretell the next revolutions The voodoo tradition is temporarily eclipsed by the virtual […]
In the streets around the cathedral where the urubu roost The bright midday sun crushes the passerby regardless of their age The walls are Red and white like the Peruvian flag A reminder of the bloodshed of the post-Colombian history The conquistadors are gone and the gringo rule took their seat But the Inca people […]
Africa is the long unwritten human history Whether some call it today ”peoplekind” or other names Just shows how small they are against the wall of our common wisdom Languages change and we give new names to the oldest Gods History does not change it is a matter of knowledge and time illiteracy This distorts […]
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 […]
Coming out from the legends and Myths of ancient times Gorgona is revived and threatens to turn you into stone Had the story been different, she would wear Perseus’ hide The myth dates back from the early days of Africa Somewhere in Libya or Sudan, it was later ‘borrowed’ by the Greeks Humanity has one […]
Tropic fusion comes to the boiling point Sublimation is only a matter of minutes Two performers improvise a play for the camera The long scroll of the Carnival history unfurls Every move, every look is a part of the collective memory The long chain of the history of mankind link by link Like an anchor […]
Strolling down Chepstow like victorious amazons Two black dancers in their minimalist or abstract costumes Feathers and flags can fly they fear no one The moment of truth meets the remembrance The history and the culture that no one will ever erase Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery