Witness History
Witness History
The World Festival of Black Arts
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May 26, 2022
9 minutes
Available for over a year
in April 1966 thousands of artists and performers from all over Africa descended on the Senegalese capital, Dakar, for the first World Festival of Black Arts. Ibrahim el-Salahi and Elimo Njau are two leading African artists who took part in that first festival. The spoke to Ashley Byrne in 2016
Photo: Poster from the first World Festival of Black Arts.