Freedom of the Artist

In its origins, the word art meant science, knowledge, or learning. But it now connotes more than that: it refers not to learning and knowledge simply but to learning and knowledge in ways different from those associated with science. Art is a way of seeing, or apprehending, the world of man and nature through visual, sound or mental images. Through these images, the whole conglomerate of skills that we call art or the arts assault our consciousness to make us take a certain view of the world of man and nature.

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Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-colonial Kenya. 1983. Trenton N wa Thiong’o - NJ: Africa World Press