Few of us know that Africans came to trade with India, and that many were also brought over as slaves to be part of Indian rulers’ armies.
La Vie en Rose: close up of El Anatsui‘s work. This Ghanian-born artist uses discarded bottle tops to create vast, hanging murals that create fields of colour, mirroring the ways in which people and the goods they consume migrate: as we travel, our genomes, ideas, customs and rituals, our books, our techniques of food preparation, and the technologies we use to make life easier shift and flow, too.
Diaspora, Migration, and Literature 