![]() ![]() Lady Skollie (born Laura Windvogel) is a feminist artist and activist from Cape Town, South Africa. To be South African is to live and strive for freedom and to know that freedom can only come from within. To be South African is to constantly wait, to be tricked by hope, to see a rainbow sink into a mine dump, to live many lives. The tides bring more people from everywhere all speaking in different tongues and Susanna Een Oor van Bengal (Susanna One Ear from Bengale) swirls in blue to the bottom of Table bay in a woven hessian sack. The colour of the sky above Table Mountain as white washing approaches. From being the most expensive pigment for paint (Lapis Lazuli) to being the colour carrying away slaves to the newfound world, drowning in the depths, forgotten, thrown overboard, enveloped for all eternity by the deepest, darkest blue. The colour blue, more importantly cobalt, has a long royal history. Each artist has also attempted to articulate what being African means to their identity and view of the world. The projects they have created are personal and distinct stories of Africa, put into images, videos, texts and illustrations. For the initiative Colours of Africa, a collaborative project with Google Arts & Culture, we asked 60 African creatives to capture the unique spirit of their country in a colour which represents home to them. Stories are told in pigments, tones and hues a kaleidoscope as diverse as the cultures and peoples of the continent. ![]()
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