There are secrets about African masks you have never heard anywhere, and I am going to expose a few of them here. I want to talk about women in masking traditions. Are there cultures where women are allowed to put on masks? Which cultures are those? If you are really into this kind of thing,…
Somewhere in a living room in Berlin, or Brooklyn, or a quiet suburb in Surrey, an African mask hangs on a wall. The owner walks past it every morning. They bought it at an estate sale, or inherited it from a relative who did volunteer work in West Africa in the 1970s. They think it…
So you own an African mask. Maybe it called out to you in a shop. Maybe you inherited it from a parent or an aunt who passed on, and now it sits on your wall, beautiful and silent, and you have no real connection to it. You do not know where it came from. You…