Share physical possessions, but not metaphysical ones

A predictable thing happened as I snapped this new sculpture of restaurant advertisement. Shouts went up and men hurried towards me from all directions. “Don’t ‘snap’ the sculpture.” “It belongs to the artist.”

The amazing generosity of Africans does not include sharing intellectual property. Photography, especially by a white man is seen as thieving the man’s work and using it for his own ends.

I escaped by saying I would phone the artist (“I de call am.”), whose name and number was on the sculpture, and “I able for bring mi padi den to dis restaurant de for eat dis chicken.”