Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Bone and Meat: Scattered Reflections on Consumption and Poverty - by Moses ochonu

aha! now this is a nice trope on my own choice to use the word "trash."
and of course, hove produced a masterpiece named..."Bones"
ken

On 10/8/15 7:18 PM, Amatoritsero Ede wrote:

"Bone is the perfect anatomical metaphor for poverty and lack. Barren, dry, and unappealing, it represents absence, the absence of meat — the absence of desirable, edible flesh, the absence of usable, edifying substance. Bone also represents presence and possibility. Presence because, even in the midst of the barrenness, a resourceful eater and seeker can salvage some meat, some muscle meat, cartilage, fat, or skin from a piece of bone. To the rich and wasteful, bone bespeaks uselessness and futility; to the poor and frugal it represents possibilities." continue this great read at: http://www.mtls.ca/issue20/moses-e-ochonu/

Amatoritsero

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