Big Chief Victor Harris adorns the spirit of Fi Yi Yi at the Backstreet Cultural Museum's All Souls Parade.

Feel the rhythm of the drums, the movement of the people and the movement of your hand swing in every direction.  A place we all know and are from, it’s time for Africa.

Vibrant is what the exhibition the “Global Africa Project” is, full of color, joy, energy and movement.

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) did a beautiful job of making this exhibition entertaining and amusing.   I could go on and on about this exhibition but there was few works that stood out to me.  The “spirit of Fi Yi Yi” by Big Chief Victor Harris reminded me of being lost in a field of feathers wondering don’t know where to go or where to exist, and the chapel for the betrayed.  It make me think of being on top of the world waiting to take over like a king does.

This exhibition makes me feel like I’m back in Africa waiting to explore with all the elements.  It was a way to show people that Africa is not that negative and it’s not all about violence and it’s more about the arts, music and the culture.  Also, I think the curators Lowery Stokes Sims, Charles Bronfman, and Leslie King-Hammond did an amazing job of picking the artists and the placement of their work. The exhibition was so different from the other exhibition on the lower floors because this one had a mood, and it’s just had something that you can’t stop talking about after seeing it.

The “Global Africa Project” was like a place where you can escape and be free from the world; it’s just you and everything around you.  This exhibition will have you feeling relaxed, thoughtless, and it will have you dancing, literary.