MONUMENTS & MEMORIALSYo vini gade mwen la
yele Zoklimo! Papa --yo vini gade'm pou yo pote'm ale! Translation: "They have come to look me over -- call Zoklimo! Father -- they have come to look me over to take me away!" From the traditional Haitian Vodou prayer, Priye Ginen/Priye Djo |
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SITES OF MEMORY & MNEMONIC PASSAGE... you must spill
me into the crack (ed) ground i am blood i am pebble roots hairs and the dust of the thunder's boom... Kamau Brathwaite, lwa, 2005 |
MUSEUMS & PUBLIC ART... there is an inextricable connection between memory and the construction of individual identity or collective identity. Thus self-knowledge can never be complete without reference to one's roots, to the past that is one's history.
Mogobe Ramose, The Struggle for Reason in Africa, 1999 |
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