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• It’s about dreaming or imagining a reality, and through that imagining of what could be, things become reality.
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This article appeared in Make: Vol. 78 in 2021. Subscribe today to get more great articles delivered to your mailbox.
Can black sculptures made out of Lego lead to liberation for Black people around the world? Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako thinks so, and that has been his guiding principle in making stunning pieces of art, like Kumbisaleh 3020 CE, an Afrofuturistic re-imagining of a medieval city in the ancient kingdom of Ghana.
“I reached into the past to essentially propel us into the future,” Nimako says. The 30-square-foot architectural sculpture, permanently housed at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, was designed using over 100,000 Lego elements to inspire progress, and celebrate Blackness without the backdrop of enslavement, colonization, and violence.
“It’s about dreaming or im