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CaribFest (Northwestern University)

CTL-E-0438 · Event · other · unspecified

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Northwestern University's CaribNation held the third annual CaribFest in May 2002 and the fourth annual CaribFest in May 2003, celebrating Caribbean culture with speakers and music; the 2002 event featured Chicago-based reggae band Indika, and the 2003 event featured Evanston-based Haitian band Sakad and Jamaican singer Devon Brown.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-122; 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.

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