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Malawian artist Samson Kambalu's new comment on colonialism has a mesmerising stillness, and its spirit is not iconoclastic, but gentle
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On the empty Fourth Plinth of London's Trafalgar Square, Samson Kambalu's post-colonial artwork "Antelope" was revealed on Wednesday. John Chilembwe, a Baptist preacher and educator who led an insurrection against British colonial control in Nyasaland, now Malawi, in 1915, is shown in the bronze resin sculpture. On John Chilembwe Day, which commemorates his death at the hands of colonial police and signals the start of the movement for Malawian independence, he is remembered in Malawi.
There's much debate surrounding where a permanent Queen Elizabeth memorial should go. One suggestion, Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, is facing pushback from politicians, artists, and even Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith.