PLEBEAIN PRINTS GAIN THEIR LETTERS OF NOBILITY

WAX IS WORN THROUGHOUT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND OUTSIDE IT BY AFRICANS ALMOST ALONE...

Who are often working class.

StreetPress

A cook in a soup kitchen

Entrée to Black Paris

A woman presumably from the middle class. 

So its discovery by the powers-that-be...

In Saint-Germain des Près, known for its galleries of contemporary art (in 2020)

At the Louvre (in 2023)

Is another sign that 

 innovation often comes from below.

At la Goutte d'Or

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