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1. Bravo. I visited Dakar several years ago and saw an earlier African art...

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:25 PM

Dec 2018

museum there. The pieces there were spectacular. My wife used to deal traditional, ritual African pieces here that were imported from all over the continent but it was obvious when I saw the displays that the Senegalese kept the most important pieces for themselves.

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Senegal Opens Museum of Black Civilizations--One of the Largest of Its Kind In the World [View all] Kind of Blue Dec 2018 OP

Bravo. I visited Dakar several years ago and saw an earlier African art... brush Dec 2018 #1

Wow, how wonderful for you and your wife Kind of Blue Dec 2018 #2

Yes, the obelick needs to be returned, just as the Elgin marbles need to go back to Greece. brush Dec 2018 #3

Yes, indeed! Those gorgeous pieces, too. Kind of Blue Dec 2018 #4

Fascinating. I would love to visit. nt Lucky Luciano Dec 2018 #5

Me, too! Kind of Blue Dec 2018 #6

Lucky Luciano... Lucky Luciano Dec 2018 #7

You are too funny! That is some serious audacity Kind of Blue Dec 2018 #8