Unmasking the Mysteries of Congolese Masks: Sacred Art, Colonial Theft, and the Fight for Memory
Search the history of European culture. Their ancient artifacts are “classical,” their symbols “prehistoric” but never “primitive.” That label was reserved for the sacred objects of others, like the masks of the Kongo.
Let me tell you this: those masks are everything but primitive, and their living power was never meant to be silenced behind museum glass.
They were the living voice of ancestral wisdom. They danced. They judged. They healed. They were alive. This is the story of their stolen power and their fight to finally come home.