Italians donate artifact to National Museum of Cameroon

Italian owners of a painting crafted in Congo many years ago have donated the artifact to the National Museum of Cameroon as a gift.

The giant piece of art, baptized “Tribute to traditions: unity in diversity" was received on behalf of the Cameroon government by Prime Minister Philemon Yang.

The giant piece of arts which is 18 meters long, seen as one of the greatest paintings in the world represents a set of painted tables, interrelated and comprising components for fall back on the central part.

It is the work of a dozen artists of the School of Poto -Poto painting, a town in Brazzaville who tried and succeeded to the coexistence of their brushes under the command of the Italians Idanna Pucci, niece and heiress of the Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza and her husband, Terence Ward.

In its semantic content, we learn, tells artistically local traditions, the journey of Savorgnan de Brazza and his experience on African soil and his various meetings with the Bantu peoples of the rainforest.

This famous artifact of unity in cultural diversity highlights some personalities and historical figures such as the Congolese Makoko Iloo I, King of Teke and keeper of traditions; Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, defender of the values of solidarity; Malamine Senegalese defender of its soil or the French Pierre Lods, presented as a symbol of the gift of artistic vocation.

The donation of this artifact to Cameroon comes after institutional restructuring of the National Museum of the country, whose official reopening is advertised as '' imminent " by Ministry of Arts and Culture (MINAC) .