Accounts on social media, especially Instagram that represent Africa need to start talking to north Africans.
I’m fuming at them making up their own north African history in order for it to fit their own agenda.
One account would not accept that north Africa is indigenously Amazigh. And proceeded to tell me, (you know, a north African/Algerian) that because my skin wasn’t black, I was NOT African.
Africans sub Sahara and down need to check themselves before tarnishing north Africa.
Cradle
to Grave explores our approach
to health in Britain today. The piece incorporates a lifetime supply of
prescribed drugs knitted into two lengths of fabric, illustrating the medical
stories of one woman and one man. Each length contains over 14,000 drugs, the
estimated average prescribed to every person in Britain in their lifetime. This
does not include pills we might buy over the counter, which would require about
40,000 pills each.
Some
of the treatments are common to both: each starts at birth with an injection of
vitamin K and immunisations, and both take antibiotics and painkillers at
various times. Other treatments are more specific. The woman takes
contraceptive pills, and hormone replacement therapy in middle age. The man has
asthma and hay fever when young, but enjoys good health until his fifties. He
finally stops smoking after a bad chest infection when he is 70. He is treated
for high blood pressure for the last ten years of his life and has a heart
attack and dies of a stroke in his seventies. He takes as many pills in the
last ten years of his life as in the first 66.
Cradle
to Grave also contains family
photographs and other personal objects and documents. The captions, written by
the owners, trace typical events in people’s lives. These show that maintaining
a sense of well-being is more complex than just treating episodes of illness.
Cradle
to Grave by Pharmacopoeia (2003) is on display in Room 24.
Pharmacopoeia are Susie Freeman, Dr Liz Lee and David Critchley.
