The Pan-African Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pan-African Nation write by Andrew Apter. This book was released on 2008-10-01. The Pan-African Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
Festac '77
Festac '77 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Festac '77 write by . This book was released on 1977. Festac '77 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966
The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 write by David Murphy. This book was released on 2016. The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In April 1966, thousands of artists, musicians, performers and writers from across Africa and its diaspora gathered in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to take part in the First World Festival of Negro Arts (Premier Festival Mondial des arts nègres). The international forum provided by the Dakar Festival showcased a wide array of arts and was attended by such celebrated luminaries as Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, André Malraux and Wole Soyinka. Described by Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, as 'the elaboration of a new humanism which this time will include all of humanity on the whole of our planet earth', the festival constituted a highly symbolic moment in the era of decolonization and the push for civil rights for black people in the United States. In essence, the festival sought to perform an emerging Pan-African culture, that is, to give concrete cultural expression to the ties that would bind the newly liberated African 'homeland' to black people in the diaspora. This volume is the first sustained attempt to provide not only an overview of the festival itself but also of its multiple legacies, which will help us better to understand the 'festivalization' of Africa that has occurred in recent decades with most African countries now hosting a number of festivals as part of a national tourism and cultural development strategy.
Roots & Culture
Roots & Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roots & Culture write by Eddie Chambers. This book was released on 2016-12-18. Roots & Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as “Black Britain.” Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature,South Sudan in War and Peace music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity.
Ebony
Ebony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ebony write by . This book was released on 1977-07. Ebony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
