Chinese and African Art in Harlem, Djibril Ngawa

This is from the closing of the art show collaboration between Africa and China.... African Artist Mr. Ba Djibril Ngawa worked with a Chinese scholar to draw paintings around Chinese calligraphy.  Djibril, who is from Mauritania in Northern Africa, perhaps wanted to express his joy that China has been making increasing investments in infrastructure in many parts of the African continent, also known as the One Belt One Road project.

Djibril's bright colors have created a sort of orange and black musical instrument... and perhaps the figure behind it is playing it, around a Chinese letter of calligraphy.  In this very abstract work, you can make your own stories up.  Show just closed at the Dwyer Art center in Harlem, NY, entrance on West 123rd Street, around the corner from St Nicholas and Frederick Douglas Boulevard.

Columbus Poetry- defend Statue

Steer on courageous Sailor,
you won't be the failer...
Now Trump can protect the legacy,
Of the one belt and one road economy.


Hey Harlem NY dudes we're on the road.
It's hard to know but we found the code.
For Columbus and his mission of discovery
Defend his statues and his legacy.

There is great political tension surrounding the preparations the Trump Administration is now making for the President's Asia trip November 3-14 and, crucially, his meetings with President Xi of China.

Confrontations with North Korea and with Iran are intensifying and threaten great, potentially immediate dangers.

But the now strengthening national debate over how to get new infrastructure built in America, after the unprotected "natural disasters" of August and September, sets an agenda for Trump with China, which is building major new projects worldwide in its Belt and Road Initiative.

Trump's own public statements and actions in rushing through emergency funds, recommending public funding of infrastructure and writing off Wall Street's unpayable debts in Puerto Rico, have intentionally provoked this debate and built on Americans' desire to unify and rebuild.

China has wanted to participate in this since President Xi invited Barack Obama's administration to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; Obama fought it instead. It represents the goals of national common interests, productivity, and connectivity for which China's Belt and Road Initiative was founded in 2013, and first suggested by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche in 1989.