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I have been turned
down several times by some ignorant
gallery owners on both sides of the
fence for their lack of interest in
African Art. In their words African Art
is primitive. The sad thing is that our
so-called elites gallery owners do not
get it too. In most cases they are worst
and very ignorant and naïve about
African art. How long are we going to
allow these false monsters of the past
run wild in our present time? I have
realized that truth is usually a hard
pill to swallow but we must confront our
past for a better tomorrow.
We have been forced
to look down on ourselves. They held our
minds captive with the television, print
media, history books or documentaries of
their explorers that were written
supposedly for them, but ended up in our
nation’s schools bookshelves for mind
alteration and economic exploitation.
Maybe I am missing something; please
tell me the expectation of an educator
who thought the grand children of Amina
in Nigeria, that River Niger was
discovered by Mongo Park.
The same River
Niger, where their grand ma, Anina bath,
swam, fetched water, they have known and
played in the river all their lives and
in fact the legend had it that their
grandpa Obi was among the men that
guided and guarded the strange White man
from the wild beast of the jungle.
Instead of a letter of appreciation,
their great grand children are forced
and feed lies of the incident in the
name of education.
They constantly
used whatever they can to accomplish
their vision. The invention of
television became an effective tool for
manipulation of generations with ease
using Jacob’s vision power of
increase, Genesis 30: 31 – 43, for
their negative agenda. There is power in
what we hear and see. That is more
reason they will never show you good
side of Africa.
modern
art a conspiracy part 1, Chidi Okoye,
modern art, African modern art, abstract
art, cubism, art article, black art
During the era of
European avant-garde artists, there were
prolific African Artists such as
‘Aina
Onabolu’ and many others whose
works were never considered modern.
Obviously including them in their modern
era will mean making them equal with
their counterparts in Europe. You know
what that means to black man who was
supposed to be picking cottons.
“European modern art” was the
biggest scam on African Art. They took
the best of our forefathers and kicked
us to the trash.
They knew what they
were doing and the effect of these
centuries of bad seeds is what we see
today in Africa and beyond. It is very
common to see African professionals,
highly educated but with no knowledge of
self and very much whiter than the
white, if you know what I mean. I have
walked into a financial firm in Atlanta,
owned and managed by some Nigerians and
the issue of African Art came up, One of
the owners was asked what type of art do
have hanging on your wall. You need see
him go off with pride and talked
eloquently on modern art at the end he
declared that he doesn’t want to be
associated with African Art.
modern
art a conspiracy part 1, Chidi Okoye,
modern art, African modern art, abstract
art, cubism, art article, black art
You can imagine how
that made me feel, having studied art
and taught art professionally to hear a
Nigerian elite in the position of power
and influence, to promote our arts and
culture, out rightly rejected his
inheritance. I didn’t wait to ask why?
He went off again to talk about crime
and the world image of Nigeria. At this
point I struggled to hold myself
from exploding
before other nationalities in the
company. I am by no means in support of
any crime but if man should disown his
nation because of crime and western
media propaganda, the problem is way
deeper than it appears. I asked him
again respectfully if any of these
nationalities working in Nigeria have
pulled out their oil drilling machines
and abandoned their mansions in Nigeria
since the 419 propaganda started? I
didn’t see him jump up with an answer
this time. Tell me where there is no
fraud and crime.
modern
art a conspiracy part 1, Chidi Okoye,
modern art, African modern art, abstract
art, cubism, art article, black art
This nice brother
is one of the millions of African souls
lost to this false and mean world of
conspiracy and selfish vision of racism
and imperialism. You might be wondering
what is this got to do with modern art.
But the truth is that, there was nothing
modern about the works of the European
avant-garde artists other than punch of
copycats, imitators and plagiarists in
conspiracy with their racist writers,
art critics and art historians to make
wrong right. Once again they gave
themselves names, cubism, modern art and
shoved it down our throat like always.
They covered the
truth of plagiarizing African Art and
started their usual evil naming
ceremonies for their selfish goals. Who
named the Primitive Art and Modern Art?
Take a close look at their so-called
primitive art and look at the modern art
and decide for yourself. Who named the
Tribal Art? These are the same people
whose lists of names consist of Negro, Aborigines,
Nigger, and Black, Gypsy, White, Red,
Yellow, and People of Color to mention a
few. What good has these names done to
mankind other than division and control.
Let us face the truth, because truth is
the heart of freedom. There is more to
names than we can imagine hence God had
to change people’s given names to
accomplish his mission in their lives.
It has been and will always be demonic
and its time to reject such names for
our true purpose and relationship with
one another.
Modern
Art a Conspiracy Part 1 by Chidi Okoye.
Modern Art Images.
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