What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not … - Wangechi Mutu

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When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

Wangechi Mutu

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.

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Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

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I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

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I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.

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In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

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A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

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