"The Time Traveller: Examining a Continent" by Matthew Maganga
Inspired by François Schuiten's Les Cites Obscures – a Time Traveller looks out at a large window at two different slices of history. These two drawings, side by side, show the journey of the African continent. One is a pre-colonial journey – the architectural marvels of an Africa before European imperialism, and the other drawing is a colonial and post-colonial journey – the Time Traveller gazing at the European architecture built on the blood and sweat of Africans and at the ships that exported African slave labour to continents around the world. Yet, within this second drawing, there is underlying hope – because there is also the expressive modernist architecture of a revolutionary, post-colonial African continent.
The Time Traveller himself is a radical inclusion. He is an African person – recording the story of the continent – something that Africans too often have been prevented from doing.
The Time Traveller: Examining a Continent
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