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The African Dream: Visions of Love and Sorrow : The Art of John Muafangejo

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The Art of John Muafangego,Visions of Love and Sorrow: celebrates the compassion and skill of an unique artist. Muafangego is the man who inspired the visions of African rennaisance,the handshakes in rythmic black and white which hung at the 1994 elections. His dream of racial harmony, as this book amply testifies, was inspried by the mans commitment to his own strongly held religious beliefs. It is both a visual history of many historial events , the "Enthroning of Archbishop Desmond Tutu" - with the information as to the occasion engraved upon the prints with pride. He is quoted to have believed that he was not a political man, but a religious one. This historical momento,sadly out of print by Orde Levinson is important because, although not large and lavish,as the more recently published book on the same artist, is soft backed and affordable, in a country where the majority of people canot afford coffee table books.A valuable addition to every South African home in the most democratic sense of the word.