If you missed our event then you definitely want to read this!

Ravon, one half  of  Brown Girls Museum Blog, recently attend our event at Nubian Huemna event last month and wrote a pretty dope review about our recent exhibit/ artist talk, titled “The Journey for Regina: Deconstructing the Black Monolith”.  Brown Girl Museum Blog is two brown girls blogging about museums, american studies, and Washington D.C.

She writes

” Nigeria does not need fixing. This exhibit challenged the Western predilection toward Africa in peril. Whether it be the media’s sole coverage of disease “outbreak” or terror groups, and the lack of follow-up to a continent made up of many diverse countries say, not unlike…Europe? To say that Nigeria or Africa does not need fixing does disregard public health or other measures that would tremendously aid particular areas of the continent but tears the veil away from our ideals of what happiness can look like. And it was a gentle reminder again, these same economic disparities exist and can be seen here in the U.S., a crowd of black faces that have been disfigured by perception are the only thing that creates this odd distinction between us and them. I think about the ways in which I usually often hover over exhibits on Africa and consider how in that stark moment a degree of distance is created but I did not feel that here. Instead, I felt an attraction to color, vibrancy, and life. A moment in which I wanted to be in the conversation.“

 

We have to admit, it feels GREAT when someone gets it! Lol by “it”, we mean when someone understands your vision and your ideas consequently plant a small seed in his or her mind. Okay, I think we’ve said enough…ENJOY!

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Feel Free to share your Thoughts after you’ve read the article.

Does Nigeria or Africa need fixing? Have we subconsciously become accustomed to the worlds view of Africa?

Thoughts ?