Know Thyself III

By Hawajane, 2021 In school, we are taught that African history began with our "discovery" by European explorers, that we had no written traditions or scripts and that we were uncivilized. "Known Thyself" asks the viewer to make a deeper investigation into our history as African Peoples to discover a very different story. The painting incorporate the Bassa script which was used in the area that is now Sierra Leone and Liberia over 500 years ago and is still spoken by descendants of enslaved peoples in Brazil and the Carribean. ---------- PRESENTATION OF THE ARTIST Hawa-Jane Bangura, known as Hawajane lives and works in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She studied Art in the UK and USA. She also h...View all