This is a reading of a key excerpt from African Tapestry, the lively and entertaining memoir of Margaret Trowell (1904-1985), founder of one of Anglophone Africa's first schools of "fine art" for Africans. Both her arguments for introducing fine art into the 'indigenous' curriculum and accounts of her teaching methodology reveal that, despite her extensive and sophisticated knowledge of the material cultures of East Africa, and despite her emancipatory intentions, the vision that underpinned her approach to art education was essentially of the extension of colonial governmentality into the aesthetic realm.
Please note that this event is held in English.
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