When: |
18 Nov 2019 through 19 Nov 2019 | |
CFP Deadline: |
30 |
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Where: |
mostaganem, Algeria | |
Website URL: |
https://www.univ-mosta.dz/fle | |
Sponsoring organization: |
Université Abd el Hamid Ibn Badis | |
Categories: |
Arts & Humanities - History |
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Event description:
International Conference on:
“The Black Arts Movement in the United States and Algeria”
18-19 November, 2019
In the 1960s, one attended the emergence in the United States a movement that came to be known as the Black Arts Movement. According to its founders, the assimilation of the African-American would unquestionably go through loss of identity hence a quest for sovereignty. In the course of time, however, it appeared that in the absence of an international footprint, the BAM would be short-lived and sovereignty sheer utopia. At this juncture myriad African-American singers, musicians, writers, poets, playwrights, and political activists like the Black Panthers, seized the opportunity to attend the First Pan-African Festival, organized and hosted in Algiers by the OAU chairperson, Houari Boumediene. Influenced by Algeria’s War of Independence; the meeting of Algeria’s Premier Ben Bella with Dr Martin Luther King in New York and W. E. Dubois in Accra, and by one of Algeria’s a...
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