Saturday, February 28, 2015

What is the Yoruba name for potters?

I just finished watching a documentary by Chris Roy on Yoruba potters.




What is the Yoruba name for them? In most places its a craft passed from mother to daughter. What most are not aware of is that the Chinese are taking these women to China..putting them up in fancy hotels and feeding them to get them to teach their techniques and then send them home with small change in their pockets!!! It broke my heart. Now these beautiful artifacts will be made in China and the Yoruba will lose again another treasure….


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