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015 – Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Consciousness and African Renaissance: South Africa in the Black Imagination

19 Thursday Dec 2013

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2000s, Art, Kenya, philosophy, politics, South Africa

The Fourth Steve Biko Annual Lecture given by Ngugi wa Thiong’o at
University of Cape Town, South Africa, 12th September 2003.

Consciousness and African Renaissance: South Africa in the Black Imagination

When Vasco da Gama set foot at the Cape in 1498, it was part of the general period of what has come to be known as the European renaissance, the founding moment of Capitalist modernity and Western bourgeois ascendancy in the world. It was also the beginnings of the wanton destruction of many city civilisations along the coasts of Africa, East Africa in particular. In 1994 Nelson Mandela as the first black president of the Republic of South Africa at a meeting of the OAU in Tunis recalls the destruction of Carthage by the generals of an earlier empire and says: “where South Africa appears on the agenda again, let it be because we want to discuss what its contribution shall be to the making of the new African renaissance. Let it be because we want to discuss what materials it will supply for the rebuilding of the African city of Carthage.” [3] Continue reading →

009 – Kenya: The African Renaissance in Art

06 Saturday Oct 2012

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Sitting Allowance Series by Peterson Kamwathi [Charcoal on Paper _ 2009]

A Timeline:

December 2009: “The African Renaissance is now” – writes Margaretta wa Gacheru:

“AfricanColours brought together a stellar group of Kenyan artists early in December for a two day brainstorming workshop on theme “Selling the Arts/Staying Relevant.”

Held at Nairobi’s leading art centre, the RaMoMA Museum of Modern African Art, workshop organizers William Ndwiga, Clients Relations RaMoMA and Maggie Otieno, General Manager www.africancolours.com had assembled a score of Kenya’s most prolific and creative contemporary artists to share ideas and hear words of wisdom from art collectors, art institution managers, and even one university professor of marketing…

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