The 1st World Festival of Negro Arts is a unique event when for approximately twenty days, Dakar became the capital-city of Negritude and the privileged place for the defense and the illustration of the black world’s civilization values. It was staged with the active attendance of the other ” Negritude Fathers” , i.e. Aimé Césaire, Léon Gontran Damas and Alioune Diop, the founder of Présence Africaine (1947) and of the Society of African Culture (1956). André Malraux’s remarkable presence did not go unoticed as well as that of hundreds of artists, writers, and cultural figures from 37 countries.
With the support of the Senegalese government and the West African Research Center, the senegalese section of the African Community of Culture (CAC / SEN), chaired by philosopher / writer Alpha Amadou Sy, and Professor Saliou Mbaye, former national Director of Archives and Chairman of the scientific committee, will commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1st World Festival of Black Arts by organizing a conference on the theme: “1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Memory and Topicality (1966 -2016)”.
The call for papers can be accessed on the following link: http://www.warccroa.org/programs/events/
Please submit your abstract by August 31, 2016.