Just before I left for South Africa, my aunt in California submitted a request. “Bring me back a piece of the motherland,” she said, after we talked about my three-month trip to Cape Town to write my dissertation on a South African artist. For many older African Americans, visiting Africa is a way of connecting […]
LaNitra Walker
LaNitra Walker is a doctoral candidate in art history at Duke University.
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Vital Voices
Like many people these days, I have Haiti on my mind. Harrowing images of Haitians running through the streets of Cap-Haitien or Port-au-Prince are shown on the news. And now President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has resigned, and Haitians are faced with looting and violence. But there is more to Haiti than just the sharp sounds of […]
