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Sankofa African Temple, Inc.
Akua N. Ishangi
25 Clifton Ave Suite D913
Newark, NJ 07104
United States
ph: 862-218-5414
fax: 973-483-3697

Africa's Living Arts  Textiles: Silent Oratory

Africa's Living Arts Textiles: Silent Oratory reveals the non-verbal communication of messages, including praise and insults, political allegiance, social affiliations, condolence, philosophy, current events and history through a visual panoply of hand-woven, hand-stamped, earth-dyed, batik, tie-dye and factory printed African textiles.

The Akan, the Yoruba, and various African nationals, make extensive use of pictographic symbols. Individually, each indigenous symbol is associated with a specific proverb or saying rooted in their experience. Collectively, these symbols form a system of writing that preserves and transmits the accumulated cultural values of the people. This pictographic writing system is used extensively in textiles, examples of which form the basis of this magnificent  exhibition Africa's Living Arts Textiles: Silent Oratory.

  • cloth is the center of the world! Dogon Proverb

    The exhibition includes indigenous African cloths such as the hand-stamped Adinkra cloth, hand-woven Kente cloth, earth-yed Bogolanfini cloth, Kuba woven raffia cloth, hand-woven Aso Oke, and other country cloths.

    The symbols encoded in these cloths are linked to proverbs, stories, songs, beliefs and everyday expressions, including insult! Accompanying paraphernalia and video footage round out the exhibition Africa's Living Arts Textiles: Silent Oratory.

  • a beautiful cloth does not wear itself! Ewe proverb


    Silent Oratory: communication through textile design provides all citizens an arena to send oblique messages, and allows society in general to vigorously preserve and develop its' cultural traditions and values

    Akua N. Ishangi - Exhibition Curator

  • Africa's Living Arts Textiles: Silent Oratory presented at:

    Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum                                                                            829 North Davis Street                                                                                          Jacksonville, Fl 32202                                                                                            Tel:904-632-5555                                                                                                     

    February 8 - September 30, 2009

Silent Oratory: the unspoken declaration of political and/or social affiliation, the transmission of philosophy through proverbs.

Silent Oratory: the art of speaking in public with style, cogency, eloquence and grace, using indirect language.

 

 

 

 

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 “One cannot love his neighbor unless he is aware of his neighbor. We hope through the understanding of each other’s culture that peace and global harmony will come to mankind; so that we can protect the only home we have ever known, the planet Earth.”

                                                                    - Baba Kwame Ishangi

United Nations General Assembly 1981 

 

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Sankofa African Temple, Inc.
Akua N. Ishangi
25 Clifton Ave Suite D913
Newark, NJ 07104
United States
ph: 862-218-5414
fax: 973-483-3697