Brian Griffith's Blog - Posts Tagged "maxine-noel"

The painting used for my book cover (from 2001) was done by the Native Canadian artist Maxine Noel, and it's called "Seedings of Africa." It's one of a collection of works done to build relations between Canadian Native and African communities. After a series of droughts and famines in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s. studies of aid donor lists showed there had been an extraordinary response of aid from Native Canadians. Efforts were then made to put Native and African communities in direct contact. As one part of this program, artists from Africa and Canada visited and painted each others' worlds. Maxine Noel's painting celebrates a "twinning" between Bunkpurugu, Ghana, and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thanks again to the artist.