THE PAN-AFRICAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL - TWO VIEWS
- Title
- THE PAN-AFRICAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL - TWO VIEWS
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Subject
- African Music
- Abstract
- We Africans are a people who like to wrestle and it is time for politician, artist and critic to tie their wrappers firmly and prepare for the bout. The organizers of the festival succeeded in bringing together these three traditional enemies, all whetting their palms in eager anticipation of the match. But it never took place. Instead, official delegation after official delegation spent their time trying to convince fellow Africans that their particular country has a culture or that many centuries ago a national literature was in fact started. The time devoted to government policy statements on culture made the festival sound like a meeting of the O.A.U., this time with a very restless audience of artists.
- Description
- pages: 134-137
- Created Date
- August 5, 1970
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-0188
- Identifier
-
1704
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 77842
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