My Beauty Best Teacher

Bunmi Oloruntoba of Bombastic Elements asks?:

...why Africans can't speak for themselves. Well, no African I know of has that degree of media enabled celebrity to combine with advocacy in order to amass the amount of soft power it takes to leverage and access political power in ways the Bonos, Geldofs, Brajelinas, Oprahs and others can. That's why they do the talking to the donors on our behalf and what I guess we find annoying, apart from them, is the how aid to Africa, under late capitalism, works better for them rather than us.
It's time to start thinking of the poverty fighting industry like we are learning to think of Wall Street, credit default swaps and the whole industry of debt creation; like the director of "Enjoy Poverty," Renzo Martins, alludes to, Africa's poverty is now a resource and it is those who have accumulated massive amounts of soft power that can leverage this resource to, on one hand, fight the same poverty, and on the other hand do with it whatever

In conversations with Art-World acquaintances I had asserted: "Till we develop economically and build thriving economies a vibrant indigenous Art Market is dead on arrival". a post by Bunmi Oloruntoba echoes those thoughts of mine:

The dream of sustainable development, i guess, is for African economies to grow to empower and expand an Africa bourgeoisie, and to see, in terms of art, Africa's institutions and exhibition spaces grow in response to this growing bourgeoisie, their increased buying power and thirst for new affirmations and identities. Until then, Africa's artists will forecast the weather of their societies in response to and as an extension of the exhibition spaces and appreciative centers of West