Old And Recent Photos Of UWI Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Oduduwa Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University, ile -ife, Nigeria.

Welcome to my blog, Today I have had a strong desire to create a space where I can share my passion for Afro-diasporic cultural history, its critical reflection and cultural theories. I would also like to share my passion for art that is inspired by this world. I hope to build a community with which to exchange, discuss and learn.

Martinique contemporary art, yoruba material, vévé haitian vodou.

Calao, oiseaux à cornes, production du peuple Sénoufo présent en Côte d'Ivoire et Mali.

Comparing perceptions of race in Latin America and the United States, the fundamental question posed is "why did Latin America not have black movements... [or] racial 'pride' that could spur such movements?" The common explanation is that state ideologies around racial mixing have served as a mechanism through which to deny the existence of racism.

Tatiana Flores, "Latinidad Is Cancelled: Confronting an Anti-Black Construct" (2021)

The more I study and the more I meet myself that all the kind of African studies: African ethnology, Noirism, indigenism, negritude, Africanism in the Caribbean have never been able to achieve their ultimate goal of emancipation, freedom and education for the Afro-descendant peoples of the Caribbean; because they never could achieve sovereignty. These currents were infiltrated and parasitized by the imperialist/ colonial nations and their local allies (elites and oligarchies), for the control of knowledge and all that this implies. The black owned is really the solution for all afro initiatives, whether in the academic, social, cultural, economic, political, educational, health… one must self-finance, one cannot depend or remain vassals of foreign funds, of foreign interests, foreign ideology. In the future we can only be united among ourselves if we really want to be free.

Material and visual heritage of Manman dlo, Lasiren, Yemọja and Ọṣun.

Roy Sieber - African furniture and household objects - Indiana University Press 1980

flow state permits beautiful things to happen.

Unidentified Edo artist, carved tusk, Benin kingdom, late-nineteenth century, ivory, 93 cm x 7 cm at baseRoyal Ontario Museum