ABSTRACT
When Into the Heart of Africa opened in November 1989, it received favorable reviews from diverse audiences. Colin Rickards, writing for Share, which describes itself as “Canada’s largest ethnic paper,” praised the exhibit highly. He commended the ROM for showing its African collection to the public, and he described Cannizzo’s reflexive approach as fascinating:
Jeanne Cannizzo, who has worked and studied in Sierra Leone, pondered over the question of whether she could make some 350 selected objects from this Aladdin’s Cave of memorabilia into an exhibition. She could, and did, and her brainchild became the Into the Heart of Africa exhibition which is currently running at the ROM. It is rapidly becoming—and rightly so—one of the most successful of the Museum’s recent exhibitions.
(Rickards 1989b)
