Bitcoin For The Arts

What is even more dangerous than the underfunding of art is African leaders who actively dismiss it. The argument is “we do not need humanities, we need engineers. We need technical skills. “ As though the millions of engineering and science graduates currently driving taxis and surviving on informal income are evidence of a shortage of technical capacity rather than a catastrophic failure of the political and economic conditions that should have created jobs for them. The engineers and scientist exist and are even fleeing. What does not exist is the political will to build the industries, the infrastructure and the sovereign economic conditions that would put them to work. Music, literature, visual art, theatre, film: these are the instruments that have historically awakened populations to the nature of their own condition. African leaders who defund the arts are choosing to keep asleep the very people that art is most capable of waking up.