Festac 77

Early in 1977, thousands of artists, writers, musicians, activists and scholars from Africa and the Black diaspora assembled in Lagos for FESTAC 77, the 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. The event came 11 years after the First World Festival of Negro Arts, held in Dakar, and 8 years after the First Pan-African Cultural Festival was held in Tangiers.

With a radically ambitious agenda underwritten by Nigerias newfound oil wealth, FESTAC 77 would unfold as a complex, glorious and excessive culmination of a half-century of transatlantic and pan-Africanist cultural-political gatherings.

Devised byChimurengamagazine, this is the first publication to consider FESTAC in all its cultural-historic complexity, addressing the planetary scale of the event alongside the personal and artistic encounters it made possible. The third title in the magazinesChimurenga Libraryseries and the tenth in AfterallsExhibition Historiesseries, the book gathers extensive unseen photographic and archival materials, interviews and new commissions. Featuring contributions from Alioune Diop, Barkley Hendricks, Audre Lorde, Betye Saar, Dominique Malaquais, Marilyn Nance, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Elvira Dyangani Ose and Wole Soyinka, among others,Festac 77: The 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culturetells the story of a legendary event that performed African and diasporic politics, culture and collectivity live on the world stage.

• Festac 77: 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
• Publisher:Walther Knig, Kln (September 17, 2019)
• Language:English
• Paperback:352 pages
• ISBN-10:3960984499
• ISBN-13:9783960984498
• Item Weight:3.53 pounds
• Dimensions:9.45 x 1.02 x 12.4 inches