Isn't it true to say that the 'modernist' movement in the visual arts in
Europe, especially if we take Picasso's work, was inspired by African art
works - masks & carvings - brought back by travellers or looted from Benin?
I stand to be corrected. If however this is true, then one can talk of
modernism having existed in Africa before exploding on the European continent.
Further, isn't it possible to say that post-colonial postmodernist historical
fiction(s) can become some of the most important ways by which oppressive
discourses (EuroAmerican?) can be resisted and exploded?
What do you think?