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Art historians like @moyokdg have talked about the mono-identification assigned to African arts, in spite of the variations in interpretations and appropriations that are organic in African Arts not only in terms of tribes but also in terms of the artists that curated the works
No singular interpretation and meaning and language can be assigned to African Arts....From #Timbuktu to #Casablanca, #Ife to #Kishasha... can be assigned to the stories of Africa...... Arts can be used to understand Africa but it has been used to distort the stories of Africa
This reminds us Deirdre La Pin's 'Tale and Trickster in Yoruba Verbal Art'. Deirdre with deep reflections on Aristotle’s and other western ideations, points out how identical acts accrue different meanings when they are performed by characters with unlike motives
