| I have been turned down several times by some | | | | declared that he doesn't want to be |
| ignorant gallery owners on both sides of the | | | | associated with African Art. |
| fence for their lack of interest in African | | | | |
| Art. In their words African Art is primitive. | | | | You can imagine how that made me feel, having |
| The sad thing is that our so-called elites | | | | studied art and taught art professionally to |
| gallery owners do not get it too. In most | | | | hear a Nigerian elite in the position of |
| cases they are worst and very ignorant and | | | | power and influence, to promote our arts and |
| naïve about African art. How long are we | | | | culture, out rightly rejected his |
| going to allow these false monsters of the | | | | inheritance. I didn't wait to ask why? He |
| past run wild in our present time? | | | | went off again to talk about crime and the |
| | | | world image of Nigeria. At this point I |
| I have realized that truth is usually a hard | | | | struggled to hold myselffrom exploding before |
| pill to swallow but we must confront our past | | | | other nationalities in the company. I am by |
| for a better tomorrow. | | | | no means in support of any crime but if man |
| | | | should disown his nation because of crime and |
| We have been forced to look down on | | | | western media propaganda, the problem is way |
| ourselves. They held our minds captive with | | | | deeper than it appears. I asked him again |
| the television, print media, history books or | | | | respectfully if any of these nationalities |
| documentaries of their explorers that were | | | | working in Nigeria have pulled out their oil |
| written supposedly for them, but ended up in | | | | drilling machines and abandoned their |
| our nation's schools bookshelves for mind | | | | mansions in Nigeria since the 419 propaganda |
| alteration and economic exploitation. Maybe I | | | | started? I didn't see him jump up with an |
| am missing something; please tell me the | | | | answer this time. Tell me where there is no |
| expectation of an educator who thought the | | | | fraud and crime. |
| grand children of Amina in Nigeria, that | | | | |
| River Niger was discovered by Mongo Park. | | | | This nice brother is one of the millions of |
| | | | African souls lost to this false and mean |
| The same River Niger, where their grand ma, | | | | world of conspiracy and selfish vision of |
| Anina bath, swam, fetched water, they have | | | | racism and imperialism. You might be |
| known and played in the river all their lives | | | | wondering what is this got to do with modern |
| and in fact the legend had it that their | | | | art. But the truth is that, there was nothing |
| grandpa Obi was among the men that guided and | | | | modern about the works of the European |
| guarded the strange White man from the wild | | | | avant-garde artists other than punch of |
| beast of the jungle. Instead of a letter of | | | | copycats, imitators and plagiarists in |
| appreciation, their great grand children are | | | | conspiracy with their racist writers, art |
| forced and feed lies of the incident in the | | | | critics and art historians to make wrong |
| name of education. | | | | right. Once again they gave themselves names, |
| | | | cubism, modern art and shoved it down our |
| They constantly used whatever they can to | | | | throat like always. |
| accomplish their vision. The invention of | | | | |
| television became an effective tool for | | | | They covered the truth of plagiarizing |
| manipulation of generations with ease using | | | | African Art and started their usual evil |
| Jacob's vision power of increase, Genesis 30: | | | | naming ceremonies for their selfish goals. |
| 31 - 43, for their negative agenda. There is | | | | Who named the Primitive Art and Modern Art? |
| power in what we hear and see. That is more | | | | Take a close look at their so-called |
| reason they will never show you good side of | | | | primitive art and look at the modern art and |
| Africa. | | | | decide for yourself. Who named the Tribal |
| | | | Art? These are the same people whose lists of |
| During the era of European avant-garde | | | | names consist of Negro, Aborigines, Nigger, |
| artists, there were prolific African Artists | | | | and Black, Gypsy, White, Red, Yellow, and |
| such as 'Aina Onabolu' and many others whose | | | | People of Color to mention a few. What good |
| works were never considered modern. Obviously | | | | has these names done to mankind other than |
| including them in their modern era will mean | | | | division and control. Let us face the truth, |
| making them equal with their counterparts in | | | | because truth is the heart of freedom. There |
| Europe. You know what that means to black man | | | | is more to names than we can imagine hence |
| who was supposed to be picking cottons. | | | | God had to change people's given names to |
| "European modern art" was the biggest scam on | | | | accomplish his mission in their lives. It has |
| African Art. They took the best of our | | | | been and will always be demonic and its time |
| forefathers and kicked us to the trash. | | | | to reject such names for our true purpose and |
| | | | relationship with one another. |
| They knew what they were doing and the effect | | | | |
| of these centuries of bad seeds is what we | | | | Lets look into more facts in the part 2 |
| see today in Africa and beyond. It is very | | | | coming soon. |
| common to see African professionals, highly | | | | |
| educated but with no knowledge of self and | | | | Chidi Okoye is an award winning sculptor, |
| very much whiter than the white, if you know | | | | painter, poet and author whose impressive |
| what I mean. I have walked into a financial | | | | bodies of work have won the admiration of |
| firm in Atlanta, owned and managed by some | | | | local and international art collectors. "His |
| Nigerians and the issue of African Art came | | | | paintings are noble, vivid, honest and poetic |
| up, One of the owners was asked what type of | | | | " Diversity News, Seattle. "A sculptor whose |
| art do have hanging on your wall. You need | | | | creative instincts are clearly channeled |
| see him go off with pride and talked | | | | towards a reflection of both his contemporary |
| eloquently on modern art at the end he | | | | and cultural heritage." Daily Times, Nigeria. |