Walter Wilson Nana
11 August 2008
There is no stopping for Max Sako Lyonga. On his cupboard, there is a new silver ware. It is another recognition from Dickinson College, a community University in the State of Pennsylvania, USA.
In recognising the immense contributions and efforts Lyonga has been putting, since 2006, for the development of the Carlisle and Harrisburg areas in Pennsylvania, Joyce Bylander, Associate Provost for campus academic life in the Dickinson College and Norm Jones wrote about Lyonga: "Max Lyonga, we respect your outstanding work involving art and art awareness with children and students in the Carlisle and Harrisburg areas."
The Executive Director of Hope Station community school, Pennsylvania, Jim Washington Jr., was not indifferent to Lyonga's show of talent and dedication in the art of painting and what he has done for the betterment of the Hope Station community school. Washington cited on Lyonga:
"The Hope Station community school has a commitment to unity and pride and embraces the success and diversity of its residents. In recognition of your contribution to this vision, we thank you for being on board."
The Carlisle, Harrisburg communities respectively, the Kingdom Embassy and Dickinson College are working hand-in-glove with Lyonga on a project, since 2006 to improve the lot of underprivileged children in the aforementioned communities.
"Our objectives include fund-raising with my paintings, whose proceeds will be used in the fight against HIV/AIDS, help poor children and teach them how to paint," Lyonga said.
According to Lyonga, his US sojourn was also an exchange of the African culture and arts that he represents and that of the African-Americans.
This reporter gathered that the authorities of Dickinson varsity, Hope Station community school have expressed a fervent wish to have Lyonga go to the US regularly to develop a practical painting curriculum for their students and pupils respectively, develop their painting skills, encourage those who have an interest in the art of painting to pick it up as well as inspire the underprivileged children that life is not all lost for them.
The abstract painter, whose aim, suggestively, is to get to the summit of painting, was described in the May and July 2008 edition of the Cameroonian world of people magazine, Summit as; "an emerging African Picasso, whose 6000 and more paintings, emit such energy and light that one is inclined to agree that Picasso lives again in an African."
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