“We're all power. We all have power - one has this knowledge and one has a degree.”
Belinda Kruiper (beh-lin-dah cry-per)
author & widow of Khomani San artist
IMAGE SOURCE: Don Pinnock. “A restlessness in the blood.” Mahala. 16 Jan. 2013. | QUOTE SOURCE: Lauren Eva Dyll. “Development narratives: the value of multiple voices and ontologies in Kalahari research.” Critical Arts. May 2014.
QUOTE CONTEXT: Speaking about the development of !Xaus Lodge in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa in which the Khomani San are community partners: “I feel that this lodge, spiritually, is a peace symbol to actually realize we’re all power.”
QUOTE QUESTION: How do knowledge and degrees support power for your people?
IMAGE CONTEXT: ”The #Khomani leader Dawid Kruiper died in 2012 and Belinda moved to Botswana where she works for the rights of ‘wild’ Bushmen in Southern Africa.”
IMAGE QUESTION: Who are people you choose to sit with and why?
MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from an academic journal devoted to the arts. The photo is from a newspaper focused on arts and culture.
MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How can the unity of art and media support your goals?
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