Rail Band (featuring Mory Kanté and Salif Keita) – “Sunjata” Lyrics by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, with additional lyrics by Bill T. Sahr Ngaujah – “Coffin for Head of State” (from Fela!: The Musical) Lilias White – “Rain” (from Fela!: The Musical)įela! The Musical. Nina Simone – “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” Lyrics by Mamadou Mbaye, Thomas Rome, Youssou N’Dour

George Frederic Handel – “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (From Solomon Act III: No.

Lyrics by Aldwyn Roberts (Lord Kitchener) Samar El Husseiny – “اهو ده اللى صار / This Is What Happened” Lyrics by Joseph Kabasele Tshamala (Grand Callé) Joseph Kabasele Tshamala (Le Grand Callé) – “Indépendance Cha Cha” Balenjo Music/Songs of Polygram International, 1992 The artists assembled here invite us to imagine our roles in building a new future.īob Marley and the Wailers – “Redemption Song” Heroes expresses the National Museum of African Art’s commitment to the dignity, complexity, and universally accessible excellence of African art history, and to the telling of unique, compelling, and specific historical African stories. In Heroes you are invited to discover a wide range of Africa’s heroes-some well-known, others perhaps surprising-and to see art works in new ways. You will find that each artwork is also paired with a specific historic African person who embodies the value expressed in the selected work. Heroes features a selection of permanent-collection works from the National Museum of African Art that tell the story of key heroic principles and personages in Africa’s arts and history.Ĭonsider the core values of leadership-justice, integrity, generosity, and empathy among them-and the types of leaders represented in the works on view here. Through art, artists tell such stories-stories of the world’s current complexity, but also visions of a world that could yet be. Africa’s history abounds with such tales. Through their journeys, struggles, and triumphs, exceptional individuals exemplify values that we celebrate in tales of heroic accomplishment-epics that outlast heroes themselves. This is the quest that the greatest of heroes model for us.

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