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Festival Events 1 H.E. Lieutenant-General Olusegun Obasanjo, Head of State of Nigeria and Festival Patron. (vi) to facilitate a periodic 'return to origin' in Africa by Black artists, writers and performers uprooted to other continents. VENUE OFEVENTS The main venue is Lagos, capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But one major attraction, the Durbar. will take place in Kaduna, in the northern part basic facts of the country. REGISTRATION FEES Preparations are being intensified for the Second World There is a registration fee of U.S. $10,000 per partici- Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture to be held pating country or community. in Nigeria from 15th January to 12th February, 1977. The First Festival was held in Dakar, Senegal, in 1966. GOVERNING BODY It was then known simply as the World Festival of Negro The governing body for the Festival is the International Arts. Festival Committee representing the present 16 Festival At the end of that First Festival in 1966, Nigeria was Zones into which the Black African world has been invited to host the Second Festival in 1970. Nigeria divided. These 16 Zones are: South America, the accepted the invitation, but because of the internal Caribbean countries, USA/Canada, United Kingdom and situation in the country, it was not possible to hold the Ireland, Europe, Australia/Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Festival that year. Africa, East Africa (Community), Central Africa I and II, At the end of the Nigerian civil war, the matter was WestAfrica (Anglophone), West Africa (Francophone) I resuscitated, and the Festival was rescheduled to be held and II, North Africa and the Liberation Movements at the end of 1975. But consequent on changes in the recognised by the Organisation of African Unity. Federal Military Government of Nigeria (the host President of the committee is nominated by the Head of Government) in July, 1975, the Festival was postponed State of the host country (Nigeria). 'in view of the obvious difficulties in providing all necessary faci Iities'. SECRETARIAT AIMS D-F THE FESTIVAL An International Secretariat has been established in The principal aims of the Festival are: Lagos to service the International Festival Committee. (i) to ensure the revival, resurgence, propagation The Secretariat is the principal instrument for implement- and promotion of Black and African culture and ing and executing the Committee's decisions and Black and African cultural values and civiliza- generally organising and running the Festival. tion; (ii) to present Black and African culture in its EMBLEM ANDFLAG highest and widest conception; An emblem and a flag have been approved for the (iii) to bring to light the diverse contributions of Festival in Nigeria. These are being featured in posters Black and African peoples to the universal and other publications of the Festival. currents of thought and arts; (iv) to promote Black and African artists, per- PREPARATIONS IN NIGERIA formers and writers and facilitate their world The Federal Government of Nigeria is committed to acceptance and their access to world outlets; ensuring the Festival success and to make it a memorable (v) to promote better international and interracial event to all Black people and Africans everywhere in the understanding; World. The Government has constructed a reception 1 2 infrastructure worthy of the high bearing of the occasion. LIST OF INVITED COUNTRIES A' new theatre and cultural complex has been built in AND COMMUNITIES Lagos at a cost of over U.S. $40 million. The Govern- ment has also established a Festival Village expected to A total number of 75 countries and communities-has house the participants as well as foreign visitors who are been formally invited to participate in FESTAC. A good expected to attend the Festival. number of these have indicated willingness to participate A National Secretariat has also been set up to look and paid up their registration fees of U.S. $10,000 each. after, among other things, the national aspects of the A few have also made financial donations to the preparation and material organisation of the Festival. International Secretariat. THE FESTIVAL EMBLEM: THE ROYAL SOUTH AMERICA ZONE IVORY MASK OF BENIN 1. Brazil This 16th Century Ivory Mask from Benin has emerged 2. Ecuador through the years as one of the finest examples of known 3. Columbia African and Black Art. 4. Venezuela It was worn as a pectoral by Benin Kings on royal 5. Panama ancestral ceremonial occasions; was last worn by King 6. Peru Ovoramwen who was dethroned at the fall of the Benin Empire in 1897. The same year, it fell into the hands of CARIBBEAN ZONE the Consul General of the Niger Coast Protectorate, Sir Ralph Moor, and now rests in the British Museum. 7. Guyana The tiara formation at the crest of the mask is made of 8. Haiti 10 Stylised heads and symbolises the King's divine 9. Jamaica supremacy and suzerainty. The two incisions on the 10. Trinidad and Tobago forehead which were originally filled with iron strips are 11. Cuba royal tattoo marks. Round the neck, the artist has carved 12. Surinam the coral bead collar which is a common feature of the 13. Dominican Republic King's paraphernalia. 14. Bahamas 15. Barbados 16. St. Kitts-Vovis Anguilla FESTIVAL FLAG 17. Antigua 18. Montserrat The flag of the Festival is a tricolor flag of three equal 19. St. Lucia perpendicular rectangles. 20. St. Vincent The two outside rectangles are in Black and the central 21. Grenada rectangle is in Gold. Over the Gold is superimposed 22. Bermuda centrally the Festival Emblem. 23. Belize-British Honduras The Black colour represents the Black people of the World. The Gold colour represents two ideas. It represents the USA/CANADA ZONE wealth of the culture of the areas and peoples embraced by the Festival. It also stands for the non-Black peoples 24.*United States of America associated with Black People in the Festival. .. 25. *Canada 3 4 UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND ZONE CENTRAL AFRICA II ZONE 26. *United Kingdom and Northern Ireland 50. Cameroun 51. Central African Republic EUROPE ZONE 52. Republic of Congo 53. Gabon 27. "France (Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana) 54. Equatorial Guinea 28.*West Germany 29. "Netherlands WEST AFRICA (ANGLOPHONE) ZONE 30. Black Communities in all other Western and European countries not in any other Zone 55. Liberia 56. Gambia AUSTRALASIA ZONE 57. Sierra Leone 58. Ghana 31. *Australia *New Zealand 59. Nigeria 32. Papua/New Guinea 33. *India WEST AFRICA (FRANCOPHONE) ZONE I EASTERN AFRICA ZONE 60. Senegal 61. Mauritania 34. Ethiopia 62. Mali 35. Sudan 63. .Guinea- Bissau 36. Somalia 37. Malagasy WEST AFRICA (FRANCOPHONE) ZONE II 38. Mauritius 64. Ivory Coast SOUTHERN AFRICA ZONE 65. Upper Volta 66. Niger 39. Zambia 67. Benin 40. Botswana 68. Togo 41. Lesotho 69. Republic of Guinea 42. Swaziland NORTH AFRICA EAST AFRICA COMMUNITY ZONE 70. Egypt 43. Kenya 71. Libya 44. Uganda 72. Tunisia 45. Tanzania 73. Algeria 74. Morocco CENTRAL AFRICA I ZONE THE LIBERATION MOVEMENTS ZONE 46. Zaire 75. National Liberation Movements recognised by the 47. Rwanda O.A.U. 48. Burundi 49. Chad "Black communities in those countries. 5 6 East Africa The Hon. Taitta Towett (M P), (Community States) Minister of Housing, Social Services and Culture, Kenya. Central Africa I Dr. Bokonga Ekanga Botombele, State Commissioner for Culture and Arts, Zaire. Central Africa II Mr. Ze Nguele Rene, Minister of Information and Culture, Republic of Cameroun. festival committees West Africa Dr. Edward Kessely, Minister of (Anglophone) Information, Culture and The governing body for the Festival is the International Tourism, Liberia. Festival Committee. This Committee technically includes West Africa * Hon. Alioune Sene, Minister of the Patron of the Festival-His Excellency, Lt.-General (Francophone) Cultural Affairs, Senegal. Olusegun Obasanjo, Head of State of NIGERIA. He does West Africa Mr. Jules Hie Nea, Minister of not participate in the meetings of the Committee but full (Francophone) II State for Cultural Affairs, Ivory reports are forwarded to him by the President of the Coast. Committee, Commander Ochegomie Promise Fingesi, Liberation Movement Mr. K.K. Nkula, Pan Africanist Nigeria's Federal Commissioner for Special Duties. North Africa Congress of Azania, P.O. Box The full Working Committee is as follows: 2412, Dar-Es-Salam, Tanzania. Commander Ochegomie Promise Fingesi, Federal Mr. A. Mbia, of Cameroun, Secretary General. Commissioner for Special Duties, Nigeria-President. ZONAL SECRETARIATS ZONES VICE-PRESI DENT South America Dr. G. Alakija, Professor, Brazil. 1. South America Caribbean Miss Shirley Field- Ridley (M P) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Information, Culture Brazilla, Brazil. and Youth, Guyana. US/Canada Dr. Jeff Donaldson, Head of 2. Caribbean Department of Art, Howard Ministry of Information, University, Washington DC. Culture and Youth, United Kingdom & Mr. Earl Cameron, Actor and Georgetown, Guyana Ireland Producer, United Kingdom. Europe Mr. L. Boissier- Palun, Barrister & 3. USA/Canada Jurist, Paris. Department of Arts, Australasia Mr. John Moriarty, Department Howard University, of Aboriginal Affairs, Sox 17, Washington DC, USA. Woden Act 2606, Papua, New Guinea. 4. United Kingdom & Ireland Southern Africa Mr. A.K.Simuchimba, Minister 46, Kingsway, of State for Cultural Affairs London WCiB 6EN. Ministry of Education, Zambia, Eastern Africa Dr. Aklilu Habte, Minister of 5. Europe Information and· Youth, c/o 67, Avenue Victor-Hugo, Ethiopia. 75783 Paris, France. 7 8 6. Australia/ Asia 16. West Africa (Francophone) IV Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Port Moresby, Dakar, Senegal. Papua, New Guinea. 17. North Africa 7. Eastern Africa Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Information, Cairo, Egypt. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 18. Liberation Movements 8. Southern Africa OAU Liberation Committee, Cultural Affairs Department, P.O. Box 15274, Prime Minister's Office, Dar-es-Salaam, Lusaka, Zambia.
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