0:07 is born at 1941
0:26 house
0:31 hostle uh named after qu K's mother
0:34 so I beginning of
0:37 February uh until
0:41 August when I I left for the states to
0:45 study and he came to the states later so
0:46 we we reconnected
0:49 reconnected
0:53 um and we got separ again because I went
0:58 to Canada from the states and uh I knew
1:03 what it was up to but see any of his
1:06 works this
1:09 structure is the
1:13 Fulfillment of a dream we had
1:17 onate and the s that he's been talking
1:20 about in his plays and and short stories
1:23 is the physical
1:27 embodiment and it is more than I
1:30 expected a truly magnificent
1:34 collage of our history our language our
1:37 thinking Our Heroes forgotten and
1:41 remembered and it say he contributing to
1:43 Excavating that was should never have been
1:58 and the sculptures and and everything do
2:00 truly represents
2:04 things that uh that we represent that
2:07 represent us as should say so I'm
2:11 awfully proud of it I know very I say
2:14 one of his oldest friends old literally and
2:16 and
2:20 metaphorically the the Exquisite
2:24 details of the of the or the the
2:25 sculpture and the
2:30 drawings amazes me he in captures
2:35 our hidden potentiality as Happ if we
2:37 could do everything with that kind of
2:41 meticulousness you know if our heart can
2:45 reflect our life and our living he doing
2:50 is asking let our art and our history
2:53 represent what we capable of so that's
2:56 what you know the the intricacy of
2:58 everything I've seen
3:01 uh yeah that's what it tell me yeah and
3:05 I'm enormously grateful you know not
3:15 africanity in Toronto for 25
3:18 years actually 35 years York
3:23 University where our vice president to be
3:25 be
3:29 study um and I wish I could go back and
3:32 and show ask my students he this or show
3:34 show them pictures of
3:42 well visit Baba Museum where Africa's
