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.
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 a 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 types 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.
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.
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.
Lets look into more facts in the part 2 coming soon.
Chidi Okoye is an award winning sculptor, painter, poet and author
whose impressive bodies of work have won the admiration of local and
international art collectors.
"Chidi's paintings are noble, vivid, honest and poetic…" Diversity
News. Seattle WA, USA. For Chidi's artworks and more information:
http://www.modernar
http://artplaza.
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