"There’s never a dull moment,” could be the official tagline of the Golden Isles. We have a full range of fine arts and an array of charity events, and the
Rita Datta | | Published 13.03.21, 12:14 AM
Between the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1930s) and Rosa Parks’s historic defiance in a Montgomery bus in 1955, there rose the voice of colonized Africans in Paris Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, (the first president of Senegal) and Léon-Gontran Damas who invented a term for a new Black consciousness: Negritude. Its unapologetic affirmation of identity shakes off white people and white-centrism from Black reckoning to assert a politico-cultural paradigm as relevant now as in the days of European colonialism.
That’s why a travelling exhibition of African-American artists from Historical Black Colleges and Universities, curated by the artist and educator, Peggy Blood, was titled