The Civil Rights and Human Rights Movements in the US and conflicts across Africa in the post-colonial period were themes in my art as a way of reflecting and documenting. The news I was seeing, the books and magazines pain I was feeling in response to the sacrifices made during the long Anti-apartheid movement in South Africa deserved visual expression. Inserts of slave ships, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and the thousands of unnamed and unknown followers of their movements for freedom and justice appeared in my prints, drawings, and collages