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Nicola Lo Calzo – Cham

Nicola Lo Calzo Cham  Culture is a complex thing, especially when it is emergent from centuries of violence, oppression and bondage. The Atlantic slave trade moved millions of bodies and reordered …

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2016/10/nicola-lo-calzo-cham/

For five years, I have been investigating slavery’s legacy in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Americas. From the destruction and the uprooting imposed by the Europeans, to the conquered and deported peoples, the history of slavery is inseparable from the odyssey of Western colonialism but it it is also the history of resistance to slavery. Elements of resistance are visible in the many visual cultures and traditions.