PERIPHERAL ATTENTION

Artists in Africa today need cooperation across organizations, institutions, and agencies that exhibit art, the government, the media and the community at large. The outcome of a recent conference insists that art commands a peripheral attention inside the continent for many reasons. Though some of the reasons may be linked to the socio-political conditions, others derive from sheer ignorance on the part of policy makers and the prevalent inverted value system which has confounded the meaning and philosophy of development in Africa.