Friday, February 18, 2022
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Beneath The Baobab Tree
This work pictured here is part of Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo’s Nkyinkyim installation. |
Beneath the Baobab tree,
There is too much pain
To calculate
To ingest
Almost to speak of
Too much horror
To comprehend
And yet,
I listen
To their salted tears
That drift upon the winds
Across the sands
In this land
That speak
from beneath
red clay dirt
The color
of faded blood
Monday, February 7, 2022
"Upon Their Faces" - An Exhibit, A Lesson in History to Never Forget
These are among the stunning images at the Nkyinkyim Museum in Ghana. |
Written after visiting the Nkyinkyim installation by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo. The exhibit, which has more than 1,700 cement effigies in a field, seeks to create a total of 11,111, in remembrance and honor of Africans who were enslaved.
By John W. Fountain
Within these ancestral faces
Of horror
Of shock
Of anguish
And of pain
Lie history's shame
Unforgivable
Almost unspeakable
Unforgettably enshrined
upon these hallowed grounds
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