FESTAC '77, a mixtape by Chimurenga
Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC ’77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigeria’s newfound oil wealth, FESTAC ’77 would unfold as a complex, glorious and excessive culmination of a half-century of pan African cultural-political gatherings.
In this mix, we decompose, an-arrange and reproduce the sound-world of FESTAC ’77 to address the planetary scale of event, alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible. And to ask: Can a past that the present has not yet caught up with be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?
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This was so beautifully put together. I was drawn in and smothered by the experience of this historical masterpiece. I consider myself a cultural activist but had no knowledge of FESTAC '77. I hope i can find more as i start digging. Thank you!
Finally a book and mix deserving for FESTAC! Ordered the book as when I wrote this piece it was so difficult to research so hugely looking forward to an in depth account. Peace x (my article - https://www.theransomnote.com/events/articles/houghton-festac-77/)
Awsome ! Thank you so so very much
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Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo. Thanks for listening.
Thank you !!!
Love this!! Thanks!!
wow, what a trip! more please...give us more! :)