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Picasso in I.Coast? A village tells of its brush with the artist

FAKAHA - “I’m sure! I tell you, he came. I saw him!” insists Soro Navaghi, keen to extinguish any doubts about Picasso’s visit to a small Ivorian village famed for its painted textiles. Whether in tourist brochures or online, it is not unusual to find references to Picasso’s reputed visit to Fakaha, a remote village in northern Ivory Coast, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) from Abidjan, the economic capital. French travel guide Petit Fute describes Fakaha as “internationally renowned” for its hand-spun cotton cloth which is painted by the Senufo people and that once “charmed a certain Picasso as he paid a discreet visit to the region at the turn of the century.” A whole mythology has grown up around the question of Africa and Picasso, who never spoke of having been to Fakaha. For the artist who once provocatively brushed off the subject, saying: “Negro art? Don’t know it” was also an ardent admirer and passionate collector of African art,

who built up an impressive private collection. Highlighting the resemblance between African sculpture and some of Picasso’s work, many art critics see the symbolism and imagery of Africa as one of his sources of inspiration. One often-cited example is the striking similarity between an African Grebo mask and one of the faces in his 1907 work “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. “Whenever someone emphasised the influence of African art on the development of his own work, he would shrug his shoulders, annoyed at being reduced to that: although it is certain he was influenced by it from 1906 when he experienced his first (African) sculptures,” says Gilles Plazy, one of his biographers. “Picasso used everything that came through his door and integrated it into the constant evolution of his artistic process,” he told AFP. “He opened up new paths.” (afp)

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In this file photo taken on June 22, 2018 Singer of British band the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger performs with the band during a concert at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on June 22, 2018.

Rolling Stones cancel tour over Mick Jagger’s health

LONDON - British rock icon Mick Jagger said on Saturday he was “devastated” after his Rolling Stones were forced to cancel their United States and Canada tour dates so he could receive “medical treatment”.

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An artist in his workshop, shows a painting assumed to be made by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in the village of Fakaha, on January 24, 2019.

“I really hate letting you down like this,” the 75-year-old wrote on his Twitter account, without specifying what treatment he was receiving. “I’m devastated for having to postpone the tour but I will be working very hard to be back on stage as soon as I can.” The rock legends earlier announced the cancellations, saying

that they would reschedule the dates. “Mick has been advised by doctors that he cannot go on tour at this time, as he needs medical treatment,” said the band’s official statement. “The doctors have advised Mick that he is expected to make a complete recovery so that he can get back on stage as soon as

possible.” Jagger has eight children, five grand children and a great-granddaughter, but has maintained his energetic stage performances well into his 70s, playing Britain’s Glastonbury Festival in 2013. The band, who formed in 1962, were due to play 17 shows in the US and Canada between April and June. (afp)

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Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, center, is escorted by police as she leaves Shah Alam High Court in Shah Alam, Malaysia, Monday, April 1, 2019.

No-one sought justice for Kim Jong Nam: analysts

The spectacular assassination of the North Korean leader’s half-brother -- smeared in the face with a banned nerve agent -- made headlines around the world but two years later its organisers have escaped accountability, analysts say. Malaysian prosecutors dropped a murder charge Monday against the Vietnamese woman who was the only remaining suspect in the 2017 killing of Kim Jong Nam at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport. Doan Thi Huong is expected to walk free next month after she admitted “causing injury”, and her Indonesian partner was released last month. Several North Koreans are believed to have been involved in the murder but four fled Malaysia the same day, and authorities allowed the others to leave within weeks amid a diplomatic standoff with

Pyongyang. The dead man -- long exiled from his homeland after falling from grace following a bizarre attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland -- was ostracised again in death, analysts say, with no-one willing to seek justice for him. “Nobody tried to fight for Kim Jong Nam’s rights,” said Shin Beom-cheol, an analyst at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. When a person is killed abroad, his or her government usually steps in, Shin said, but added: “In Kim Jong Nam’s case, North Korea did not exercise the right for diplomatic protection -- rather, it was the one

who killed him.” And while the United States and South Korea might have taken on that role in the past, they are likely to remain on the sidelines following Monday’s developments to avoid jeopardising their ongoing if stuttering dialogue with the North. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who has long backed engagement with Pyongyang, held three summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last year. And Kim has met US President Donald Trump twice since the assassination, but the human rights abuses the North is widely accused of were not a key issue at any of the summits. “As for Malaysia, its diplomatic relations with Indonesia and Vietnam were far more important than serving justice for Kim Jong Nam,”

Shin added.

- Bloodline Pyongyang has never admitted to killing Kim Jong Nam -- it says the dead man was a North Korean citizen called Kim Chol, and that the accusations are an attempt to smear it. As their father Kim Jong Il’s eldest son, Jong Nam would have a claim to be the legitimate successor in a still hierarchical society where

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traditional values often hold sway. After he was sidelined he led a luxurious but marginal existence in the Chinese territory of Macau, only for his killing to be widely seen as the fatal outcome of a power game in the regime’s ruling dynasty. The Kim family tree is littered with figures who met violent deaths or were forced into exile after being marked out by a regime which has never loosened its grip on power in three generations. Continued to page 6

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