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World Service,18 Apr 2017,9 mins

The World Festival of Black Arts

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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. They have been speaking to Ashley Byrne. Photo: Poster from the first World Festival of Black Arts.

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