“The [ruins of] Great Zimbabwe is one great puzzle, which we are failing to decipher because we’re failing to look beyond the rocks,” he says. “There’s a certain wavelength we are missing, but we can tap into that wavelength by going back to the past. What the colonial process has done is erase [our] hard drive, and we have been fed a new narrative that has been based on somebody else’s idea of how things should be. To get to that level, people have to come back home—not physically—but come back home and start having pride in our accomplishments and not judge them by a Western standard. Even design. Especially design.” - Saki Mafundikwa and Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts Inspire a New Generation of African Artists
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:45:56 +0000
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