A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… remarks made by Picasso to distance himself from African art, Henry Louis Gates Jr, has written that: "It is … (Picasso's) anxiety about (African) influence (on his art) from Europe's larger anxiety about the mask of blackness … the Enlightenment." (Henry Louis Gates Jr, in "Africa: The Art of a Continent': ed Tom Phillips, Royal Academy of Arts, …