| They have never been interested in others but for | | | | military excursion by a British force of 1,200 under |
| what they can get. The opportunity to study other | | | | Admiral Sir Harry Rawson that captured, burned, and |
| cultures have presented it self severally but they were | | | | looted the city of Benin, incidentally bringing to an end |
| not up for it. They have written mind alteration books | | | | the highly sophisticated West African Kingdom of |
| for their vision. It would have been ideal for them to | | | | Benin.Secondly, the Scramble for Africa (or the Rat |
| introduce most of these books into their schools for | | | | Race for Africa) was the proliferation of conflicting |
| knowledge, more researches and better appreciation | | | | European claims to African territory during the New |
| of others. But hell no they were only interested in | | | | Imperialism period, between the 1880s and the start of |
| altering our mind set, artifacts and how much they can | | | | World War I. This era was more of art and treasures |
| make from the unknown world.My gratitude goes to | | | | than territories. You are free to disagree. You can as |
| our men and women, most of whom have lost their | | | | well tell me of any other continent; that has suffered |
| lives in saying the truth. Truth must prevail; I have | | | | massive global extortion and exploitation of arts and |
| realized danger of the silence conspiracy to erase | | | | culture. A visit to museums around the world will shade |
| anything African in the face of the earth. The fact that | | | | more light on this. |
| civilization of man started in African has disappeared | | | | The earliest documented entry of a piece of African |
| from the pages of history books, even pyramids of | | | | art into a European collection occurred around 1470, |
| Egypt to some people were built by aliens, It is too | | | | with a work that a Portuguese collector acquired from |
| good to be African; if given a chance to recreate the | | | | the kingdom of Kongo.Please permit me to introduce |
| map of Africa, Egypt and some part of South African | | | | the so called founder of cubism and modern art, |
| will definitely be carved out of the map to serve their | | | | Picasso and his rivalry and partner in plagiarism |
| purpose.There have been conflicting records of when | | | | Matisse, who were first European avant-garde artist |
| Europeans came in contact with African Art. With due | | | | collectors of African Art. His full name was Pablo (or |
| respect to our art historians who have made | | | | Pablito) Diego Jose Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan |
| references to 1905 as the year of European first | | | | Nepomuceno Crispin Crispiniano de los Remedios |
| contact with African Art as widely documented. I beg | | | | Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Ruiz Blasco y |
| to disagree. We should not forget the looting of Benin | | | | Picasso Lopez. We know him today as simply |
| Art treasures. The Punitive Expedition of 1897 was a | | | | Picasso. |