Busy at CBK ..come to think of it...Juche Juche sounds opius or is it opium Dei

Wow. I had not seen it that way. Excellent point.

Introduction: African Values
Objectives: To assesses analytical writing and problem-solving abilities, while also addressing data sufficiency, logic, and critical reasoning skills vital to real-world business and management success in Africa

The Senufo female (Debele)
Myron Kunin African Art Collection
Sothbey's London

The ‘Senufo’ above, a few weeks ago was sold at Sotheby’s in London for over KES 1 billion, a bargain, reason being that it is regarded as a pinnacle of the abstract arts particularly depictions of cubism and geometric form in the most masterful style that was used as a basis to train the more renown abstract contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso who best attempted to imitate and elucidate to humankind, the quality of such works of art. One may explain away the arts complexity/simplicity as “a parallel to E=MC2 “to those uninitiated to the arts. Or in more down-to-earth terms,
”The Master Senufo Curver”, was the forbearer of a parallel form of knowledge to other forms such as atomic physics, music, geometry, e.t.c, because to the artist and aficionado, cubism is a “ form” and truly valuable means of communication, just like 4G internet or alphabet.

Quiz 1; Value of Knowledge
Question 1. Do you “understand” the above in italics? A) Yes B) No C) Not sure
Question 2. Attempt to rephrase the above in italics in ONE sentence

The master was an early 20th century or late 19th century artist, the “Master of Sikasso”, a designate for the world’s greatest cubism/abstract artist, who was most likely murdered by Europeans in the colonial scramble for Africa, where his kind were throughout Africa, labeled “witchdoctor” and killed. The remnants of these arts were eventually bought and kept by appreciative museums, galleries, art schools and the very wealthy aficionados in America and Europe who understood the works. Joseph Murumbi, Kenya’s ‘intellectual’ first Vice President salvaged some Senufos which are on display at Kenya National Archives including a possibly priceless ceremonial headgear that much resembles the work of “The Master”.

At another Sotheby’s sale, was a 15th Century Luba caryatid “Female Stool”, just edging below a billion shillings. Several of these stools, amongst which, perhaps the Kisii, Kikuyu, Miji Kenda, Taita, or Luhya, according to ‘our GHC’ level history, may have used to precisely trace their ancestral lineage in the Congo, by names, were burnt. According to various studies, including King Leopolds Ghost by Congo Historian, Adam Hochschild, Belgium’s King Leopold in pursuit of genocidal European racist ideologies common in Africa and Australia at the time, murdered over 10 million of long drawn communities historical inhabitants of the Congo (including some “peaceful & more civilized” communities, admired artist, doctors, historians, musicians, mathematicians, physicists and chemist labeled savage witches and monkeys) erasing an entire history, stealing tones of gold, gems, minerals, timber and food (all still ongoing), destroyed and totally impoverished beautiful wealthy cultures, knowledge and priceless artifacts, manuscripts, all commencing at about the same time the European Holocaust was taking place under the same “racist” fervor.

COMMENT; Oh, Congolese, the masters of the arts, music, and dance, the repository of African foods, hunters, pygmies, gorillas, goldsmith and even Philosophy , today is an “idiotic African shadow” of some of its heritage, a totally “enfoolished” people.

The added intrinsic value of these stools “in today’s terms” apart from their refinement as works of arts commissioned by royalty/rich families from the finest artist in the community lays in the secrets they reveal about some of the communities in Africa, such as amongst the Luba, and the women’s role in leadership. The stools were used in reciting the lineage centuries down the line, as each head/generation, had their own stool, through the curved qualities of the matriarchs who “held up” the society. In essence, these artifacts were in total a very good, pretty reliable big “book”, an African bible so to speak, taken apart, at whose pleasure?

Assignment 1
Research on what artifacts “worth billions” were taken within your community, snatched/sold from/by your “great-grandparents”,was anyone killed/hurt in the process and how? where are the artifacts now?
Describe Waiyaki wa Hingas stool
My answer in much later upcoming class.
Next Class:
Introduction to Knowledge Management;