Performing Global African Culture and Citizenship: Major Pan-African Cultural Festivals from Dakar 1966 to FESTAC 1977
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Murphy, David
Date published
2018
Abstract
This article traces the ways in which the understanding and expression of global African culture and citizenship evolved across a series of major pan-African cultural festivals held between 1966 and 1977 in Dakar, Algiers and Lagos. It argues that these festivals were part of a general shift from political pan-Africanism to cultural pan-Africanism, and counterbalances the festivals’ grand, official, national narratives with the individual encounters fostered by the events.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
30
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Collection