The Great African Museum

Oluwafadekemi Ogunsanya, MArch (Year: 5)

The project aims to disseminate art and cultural artifacts throughout Africa as a means of addressing a crisis concerning African cultural identity or a lack there of within the continent by providing a strategy that allows for art to be acquired, distributed and exhibited across the continent via rail. African art has been exploited and perceived as less than for centuries. To this day many artists do not receive the recognition as their works are trivialised and seen as craft. The space is deliberately non prescribed, so that each community might nurture and use it how they see fit. Visitors of the museum become witnesses of the time in a multimedia archive which provides new evidence for a biography of the African continent, which retrospectively outlines the interplay of culture politics and art in building a new social space for Africans.