FESTAC '77

CTL-E-0395 · Event · other · unspecified

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Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, Lagos, Nigeria, January-February 1977; major venue of Chicago-African artistic exchange.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-079; source research type(s): Event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Africobra and the Negotiation of Visual Afrocentrisms; FESTAC 77 (Oxford Research Encyclopedia)
Africobra and the Negotiation of Visual Afrocentrisms; Picturing FESTAC 77

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