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...mixing up. Everything we do is about contradictions, really." Those contradictions, he thinks, define the world much more honestly than the singular truths he had once searched for. "You realize that things don't have to make sense," he explains, in a way that does. The son of a Ghanaian diplomat dispatched to London's High Commission by the first post-independence government, which was unceremoniously displaced by a coup in 1966, Eshun was born in London while his father was a political prisoner in Ghana's capital, Accra. On his father's release, Eshun, his mother and three siblings...
...Eastern Europeans are very loud,” says Polish and Ghanaian Sam Palmer-Amaning ’05, a former president of the society. “Imagine coming to an event and seeing the whole Romanian crowd cheering and dancing, all speaking in the same language and singing the same songs. Someone may think that he’s come to a cultural party instead of a Woodbridge event...
Sharon O. Doku ’05, a North Carolina native with Ghanaian parents, says the pigeonholing is more problematic...
...show of contemporary African artists ever seen in Europe, it features paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photography, film and video by some 70 artists from 23 countries stretching from Morocco to Mozambique. The "remix" concept?blending old and new, sacred and mundane?is an apt metaphor for contemporary African art. Ghanaian artist El Anatsui makes a dazzling metal cloth, reminiscent of ceremonial fabrics, from thousands of aluminum bottle tops. Mozambican sculptor Gon?alo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving...
...remix" concept - blending old and new, sacred and mundane - is an apt metaphor for contemporary African art. Ghanaian artist El Anatsui makes a dazzling metal cloth, reminiscent of ceremonial fabrics, from thousands of aluminum bottle tops. Mozambican sculptor Gonçalo Mabunda domesticates assault rifles and other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Chéri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century...