Dr. Somjee featured on the Violence Transformed website

"This is the first of two linked exhibitions that share some of the wisdom Dr. Somjee has accrued through four decades of work living with, and curating the material cultures, stories and rituals, of indigenous communities in East Africa. ....We have selected a sampling of illustrations from the first two books for this exhibit, organized into groupings representative of some key themes in the original novel: storytelling; healing the earth; beauty in material culture; the walking sticks; peace animals; peace drawn from the greeting of dawn, walking as a transformative ritual; peace is sharing with strangers and the enemy." 

The above are a few lines from the curator's statement, Dr. Shirland, Associate Professor of Art History at Brigewater State University & Violence Transformed Advisory Board Member.  See the full exhibition on  ViolenceTransformed.com . The picture is from the documentary on Peace Trees by Bruno Sorrentino and the illustrations are from the graphic novel Alama's Walk: The Oracle Speaks and Alama's Walk: Healing the Earth.