NEUMAA (NU_MAA) Arts

Kay Reese's 'Witness to Captivity' narrative is a series of scenes that tells the experience of Black people struggling for freedom as they crossed the world in ships as captives in pre-and post-colonial eras; crossing borders, languages, cultures, gods, and identities.?It is well documented many of those captives committed suicide by throwing themselves overboard. Subsequentially challenging the concept of suicide as self-murder, rather than a requirement of spiritual freedom or a quest for life and redemption in response to the loss of “free will” a fundamental human right. And against the inherent evil of degradation, despair, and death in human captivity.?These experiences are humbly imagined from the point of view of the captured Africans.

"My house was burning..."

'They came for us at night...'