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Samuel Dalle/Joe Pollitt | The Conductor, 2016 What if? And what if we were to make Earl Grey Tea an illegal substance, banned all smelly cheeses, boycotted the humble bagel whilst outlawing all crisps, French Champagne and barring all sugars. What then? What if we were to legalized drugs and allowed only black shopkeepers to sell them; gave every child matoki from Uganda in Primary Schools and fed the poor with free cassava, okra, sweet potatoes from Nigeria, yams from the cancer tree from South Africa and plantain fufu from Ghana. What then? Human rights, equality for all, FREE TRADE, don't make me laugh. There is a Prohibition on all black people in the USA, Europe and Africa (if they don't own it, you can't have it.)  #Blacklivesmatter Kofi Mensah 30/09/2016

Black Lives Matter | Kofi Mensah ARTWORK | JOE POLLITT BLACK LIVES MATTER This Movement is extremely important. Not just about police brutality in America but black lives across the globe. Here is a poem Kofi wrote that takes on an African beat and plays with the syllables of Black (1) Lives (1) Matter (2) - the poem starts off with 4 syllables and then is reduced to 3 and ends up back with the initial 4 syllables. This is to show how talent, opportunities and lives are squeezed in the middle and then return to normal in the end. Every line is read as a single entity fragmented but also as a whole, as a story told so simply. Not wanting to sound like a singer, a front-man but more like a bass. Not wanting to create a complete band-sound or an orchestra, no, just a bass note of syllables on every line that make up the 4/3/4 style poem. Kofi's intention is to sound like a lost bow-less cello. Saying something as simply as possible, like a jab from a boxer rather than an uppercut or ...

  ABOUDIA | BOMBE FANTOME Private view: Thursday 8 September 2016, 6 - 8 pm Exhibition: 9 - 23 September 2016 13 Mason's Yard, St. James's, London, SW1Y 6BU info@jackbellgallery.com www.jackbellgallery.com

SAVE THE BUSHMEN | This really caught my eye. Trophy hunting has moved up a notch, now people are killing the Bushmen from helicopters. Unreported News for sure. What is my point here? I can see a shift in the Continent's art in regards to becoming proud of being primitive and celebrating the Uncivilized but look what happens when viewed by the wealthy western world. African lives become less valuable than those of the animals. So this gross act must be punished at the highest levels of Botswan a's Leadership. What an utter disgrace! Shameful to value a life so poorly.  We must fight against the Greed. This is what is driving justified murder by the so-called Civilized World; not just in Africa but everywhere. The Bushmen know the land so well; what we lose is so important, far more precious than diamonds and natural resources. When the knowledge has been destroyed and the Greed succeeds, only then, will we realize that the lands of Botswana will become permanently u...

New Exhibition in Accra Ghana curated by Bernard Akoi-Jackson

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/hilma-af-klint-painting-unseen   Serpentine Galleries presents an exhibition of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), who is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. While her paintings were not seen publicly until 1986, her work from the early 20th century pre-dates the first purely abstract paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich.  "The show of the year" - The Sunday Times This Serpentine exhibition focuses primarily on af Klint's body of work, The Paintings for the Temple , which dates from 1906–15. The sequential nature of her work is highlighted by the inclusion in the exhibition of numerous paintings from key series, some never-before exhibited in the UK. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1887, af Klint took a studio in the city where she produced and exhibited traditional landscapes, botanical drawings and portraits. However, by 1...