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Bacchus and Ariadne (detail) by Kimathi Donkor

 
Bacchus and Ariadne (detail)
2004, oil on linen, 132 x 152cm
 
"I shall wage a war of terror and extermination" wrote French General Charles Le Clerk in an 1802 report to his commanding officer Napoleon Bonaparte. During his invasion of Haiti (then Saint-Domingue), Le Clerk issued orders to kill every African over the age of 12.
 
© 2004 Kimathi Donkor