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By Mike Peters ( China Daily ) Updated: 2014-02-16 08:36:13

Cross-cultural interactions

Homecoming the great return by Ajike Njoku. [Photo provided to China Daily]

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China-Africa business news dominates the pages. It's not all rah-rah, though, as Njoku's directness often shines through, as in the recent headline "One Bad Apple on the China-Africa Menu". The magazine also includes features that celebrate human and cultural interactions.

"China thinks it knows Africa, but it does not know Africa," he says solemnly. "Africa thinks it knows China, but it does not know China."

Njoku believes strongly that art offers China and Africa ways to see the other from different perspectives, to find common ground, and to discover and relish differences. He defines himself as a new-media artist, photographer, writer, drummer, Web designer and author.

He came to China in 2008, with a borrowed camera to document the growing presence of Africans in Chinese cities. His images have been featured in a group exhibition, two solo shows, and in 2012 at the renowned Pingyao Photo Festival, where he is believed to be the first African photographer to exhibit there.

"Anything I lay my hands on becomes creative - even you!" he writes in the catalog for Across the Lines, a show of photos and paintings he put on last year with his friend Theo Akonga, a Congolese artist in Beijing.

"I want to use my art to preach peace and tolerance and to promote social harmony, especially between China and Africa," Njoku says.

That message rings loud and clear in his works, including a striking self-portrait with a Chinese child on his lap - a spontaneous moment in which he sees the Chinese boy examining "the potential of Africa" in Njoku's big hand. There are such cross-cultural interactions in many of his photos and paintings, including the colorful Africa Day at Yugong Yishan and Aids and Grips; in the latter, two Chinese women and one African woman help a pregnant African woman at a critical moment of labor.

"When you bring cultures together, there's always misconceptions before everyone begins to appreciate each other's values and cultural attributes," says Sam Ahadu, an immigrant turned Beijing music promoter who applauds his friend's multimedia efforts. Many of Njoku's photographs, like the one above (pictured), show Chinese people experiencing the wild and wonderful ways of traditional African dance and music. In 2010, he published Wonderful World, Beautiful People with the Shandong Friendship Publishing House in Jinan.

He is a man of strong faith, too, and never ends an e-mail or a hug without a blessing wish for the recipient.

Among the most luminous images at his recent Beijing show: The Way of the Cross, a 2004 watercolor and ink drawing with soft-featured Africans milling around the foreground of the crucifixion site.

"May God continue prosperity for you all and grant you divine favors in everything you lay your hands to do," he told well-wishers at the gallery opening.

Joseph Catanzaro and Chen Yingqun contributed to this story.

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