The Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
de-composed, an-arranged and reproduced by Chimurenga (Ntone Edjabe Ben Verghese, Eva Munyiri ...[et al.])
- Editor(s)
- Chimurenga (Ntone Edjabe Ben Verghese, Eva Munyiri, ...[et al.])
- Publication
- London ; Berlin : Chimurenga and Afterall Books ; Wather Koenig Verlag, 2019
- Scope
- 448 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.
- ISBN
- 97818463821239783960984498
Festac '77, also known as the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (the first was in Dakar, 1966), was a major international festival held in Lagos, Nigeria, from 15 January 1977 to 12 February 1977. The month-long event celebrated African culture and showcased to the world African music, fine art, literature, drama, dance and religion. About 16,000 participants, representing 56 African nations and countries of the African Diaspora, performed at the event. Artists who performed at the festival included Stevie Wonder from United States, Mighty Sparrow from Trinidad and Tobago, South African Miriam Makeba. At the time it was held, it was the largest pan-African gathering to ever take place. This is the first publication to consider FESTAC in all its cultural-historic complexity, addressing the planetaryscale of the event alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible. The book gathers extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions by among others Akin Adesokan and Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, and archival texts, materials, images and photographs by Wole Soyinka, Audre Lorde, ASun Ra and many more.
- Keywords
- decolonisation
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
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