who has been fortunate to have traveled a lot, from the poorest to the
richest, in somany ways… given this I understand and am sensitive to the
dichotomies of the world, and the very real and most times blatantly
obvious effects of colonialism and capitalism. What scares me is how so many
people choose to ignore it, how so many people benefit from it, and how so
many people are hurt by it, in ways that words usually just don’t do. How actually privileged and so called intelligent people talk about and think about people from different cultures, and think about Africa and colonialism only on the surface level, and are most often too afraid and too guilty to look deeper, or even just look at all.

The Sape exhibit is such a slap in the face to anyone who thinks the effects of colonialism is notprevelant today, but what I love is that colonialism is not what the exhibit is really about, although it is there like an active ghost in the house. Its about the Sape’s of the Congo! A brilliant subject, that I feel touches on so many subjects, that so many can extrapolate from regardless of their gender or cultural background. Its awesome how so many cultures can take a negative situation a negative reality, and flip it upside down.

And they use the parts they like and intergrate in their own way, then reclaiming an identity that was trying to be forced on them, so its projected back in a whole new way. It’s a triumph of the human spirit. Thank you thank you and thank you again. And my apologies for this very long email, I was just to inspired and happy from that exhibit.

All the best.
 
Lauren Watley