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Peacock the Sentinel

Peacock the Sentinel

Peacock the Sentinel. The peacock symbolism represents beauty, grace, renewal, and spiritual awakening. The peacock is native to India, Asia, and Central Africa, where various tales give it deep significance. Peacocks symbolize beauty, as they have vivid feathers pleasing to the eye. The rich colors…

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Akhenaten

Akhenaten

Akhenaten, living centuries before King David, he wrote psalms as beautiful as those of the Judean [Judaea] monarch. Thirteen hundred years before Christ he preached and lived a gospel of perfect live, brotherhood, and truth. Two thousand years before Mohammed he taught ….

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SUNRISE. Kasuma Resort, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (2006)

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Egyptian Museum Cairo Egypt

Egyptian Museum Cairo Egypt

Egyptian Museum Cairo Egypt. According to the evidence we now have, humankind started in Africa. But the question raised by people who should know better is: “But what has Africa contributed to world progress? “ Let’s not forget scientists who agree that Africa was the birthplace of humans, and that for many centuries after that, Africa led the way in world progress.

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Peacock the Sentinel

Peacock the Sentinel

Peacock the Sentinel. The peacock symbolism represents beauty, grace, renewal, and spiritual awakening. The peacock is native to India, Asia, and Central Africa, where various tales give it deep significance. Peacocks symbolize beauty, as they have vivid feathers pleasing to the eye. The rich colors…

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Akhenaten

Akhenaten

Akhenaten, living centuries before King David, he wrote psalms as beautiful as those of the Judean [Judaea] monarch. Thirteen hundred years before Christ he preached and lived a gospel of perfect live, brotherhood, and truth. Two thousand years before Mohammed he taught ….

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Arabesque Exhibition

Arabesque Exhibition

Arabesque Exhibition. The arabesque is characterised by intricate scrolls of bifurcating stylised leaves that embellished many objects that were produced within the Islamic world. It is one of the main Islamic decorative repertoire,…

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Street Abstract

Street Abstract

This street abstract is a portrayal of ‘guess work’ because it represents little, if anything, visible or recognisable in the real-world context; as its beauty depends on and comes through one’s vivid imagination, therefore, to reveal itself as a primary gift.

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Lady Cook

Lady Cook

Lady Cook. As I explored the environs of El Wak Stadium, Accra, Ghana, site of the Dec 2023 AfroFuture music festival, this lady, taking a break from food preparation, caught my attention. Revealed is a face that reflects the inner beauty of the one on which it rests.

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Quiet Morning

Quiet Morning

Quiet Morning. Apartment Building. Penang, Malaysia (7am, 20 Jan 2024). Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by, A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear – The beauty of the morning … ⎯Wordsworth

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Kahlil Gibran Lebanese Poet

Kahlil Gibran Lebanese Poet

The infamous Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese, poet states that “Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms”.

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Kezia Agyemanboafo Accra Ghana

Kezia Agyemanboafo Accra Ghana

My portrait of Kezia Agyemanboafo, a local lady, was captured by as I explored the grounds within El Wak Stadium during the AfroFuture Music Festival, held on its last night in Accra, Ghana, 30 Dec 2023. Faced with poor and often fluctuating lighting…

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Atome ne nkosuahene – I am left only with egg-shells.
Had my mother or my father been alive, it would not have
Been egg-shells, but a whole fowl, a full chicken!

-Lament of Ashanti-Akan in Ghana

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