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Weaving: Redesigning The Post Colonial Town Through African Cultural Traditions, Henry Walela Musangi
Weaving: Redesigning The Post Colonial Town Through African Cultural Traditions, Henry Walela Musangi
Masters Theses
“They [Africans] look upon their native arts and crafts primarily as the ‘locus’ of their national consciousness. In spite of a violent urge for the new, for progress and for high living standards, more and more of their valuable, innate culture and customs now are being reflected upon in new light, finding their own voice in the form of a new, healthy and surprisingly expressive art.”
“The ‘new’ is cleansed from any cliché imitating a style.
The ‘new’ does not evolve from cheap modernism.
The ‘new’ functions according to the climate and the situation.
The ‘new’ proves to have an …