African/Caribbean International Festival of Life

CTL-E-0435 · Event · other · unspecified

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The African/Caribbean International Festival of Life (IFOL) was established in Chicago in 1993 by Ephraim Malachi Martin; the first event was held at Hawthorne Park Racetrack, with later editions at City Front Center, Washington Park, and Union Park, and the festival was dedicated to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-119; source research type(s): Event. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

International Festival of Life official biography PDF; jamsat.com festival history; eventnoire listing; encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com (2007 entry) (primary source)

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