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PanAfrican Festival Opens in Algeria

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Posted by: News Desk on July 10, 2009 Under: Africa, Algeria, Arts & Entertainment, Feature, Positive Africa




Senegal superstar Youssou N’dour, center, performs songs commemorating slavery during a show in Algiers, Algeria, on Monday, 6 July, 2009, inaugurating the second Pan-African Festival (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou). The event, which runs until late July and is taking place for the first time in four decades, gathers over 8,000 artists from across Africa to celebrate the continent’s culture and reflect on its future development.

The first festival took place in Algiers in 1969 amid widespread euphoria. Most African nations had just gained independence, they were full of hope, and Algeria was spearheading the nonaligned movement balancing between the Western and Soviet blocks.

Pan-African Festival on the web: http://www.panafalger2009.co

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