Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa was good. Existence, just like the buildings, could be gathered from the earth. In the eternal renewal of modest structures, Africa remained stable and conservative; it was human, rather than humane, and in balance. The balance could be found in the modesty of technological means and their religious resonance of which the enormity lay preserved in the business of the everyday, and the fight against boredom. This old Africa achieved a balance discovered in the forgetfulness that is encouraged by the transience whereby permanence is achieved not by the fight against it but by using the rythm of the seasons, by perennial renewal and careful ans seasonal maintenance of relationships. A conservatism in the perpetual renewal of a paradigm: the hut and memory in the story that can move. copyright © jacob voorthuis