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Nontsikelelo Mutiti Quotes

born 1982

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Writing and reading has always come with this colonial layer, even when we are reading local languages typeset using roman characters.

The cultures within the space now known as Zimbabwe do not have writing systems that are formally recognized.

I look at them on a continuum of technologies.

I come into a space of teaching, I’m thinking about typography and letterform from that position.

In my practice, I try not to look at African material culture as something that is antiquated.

I was not taught about any of these ways of articulating myself.

There were pictograms painted on rock faces or walls and also beaded adornment with codified meaning.

My way of articulating myself has come with this colonial layer of using English, using written form, and reading texts that are set in global characters.

It could go up up up up up and then this is just free.
Nontsikelelo Mutiti;Digital artist

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