" We are all immersed in this West that has swallowed up all other worlds, and I have inherited my share as an outsider in this squat that we all share. The institutions of ethno-aesthetics, commissioned by European states to manage the dialogues of civilizations, are ideological war machines. Through mediation between "the civilized" — the West and, in an evident or meta-sense, Africa — and "the barbarians," they declare a war of civilizations against the poor of the extra-European world. "

- Hassan Musa in Art Absolument (Renaud Faroux, 2011)