Chop-Chop Spirit: Festac ’77 Revisited
Sean Jacobs, 9 May 2024
Photographs of Festac by Marilyn Nance (1977)
In April 1966, Senegal hosted the Festival mondial des arts nègres (Fesman), the first global, state-sponsored festival of African art, music, drama, poetry, literature, film and dance in the era of African independence. It was the brainchild of Léopold Senghor, Senegal’s president, who saw the arts as a field of struggle....