Life | African Cultural Festival in Malmö, Sweden |
| Written by urbanlife.se |
| Sunday, 09 August 2009 13:12 |
 On August 8, 2009, for the third year in a row, the Association of Reggae Warriors in Malmö and several other African and African Diaspora associations held an African Cultural Festival in Malmö at Folkets Park. It was a good, sunny day (an "African" day) and thousands of people -- Africans and non-Africans -- came to the park to take part in eating delicious food (Ghanaian, Nigerian and East African), listening to great music, and buying and selling the many African-inspired arts and crafts that were available.There was also a story-telling tent for children, a photo exhibition, and seminars. Click here for pictures Jallow Momodou of Malmö University gave one on the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and Madubuko Diakité, the publisher of The Lundian and a human rights legal research, gave one on the need to create a strong African-Swedish Diaspora identity and interest group in Sweden. In the early part of the evening, Gambia's "Best National Artist", giro singer Sambou Susou, entertained the audience with fantastic giro songs for two hours, and the day ended with a film by the prize-winning Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: " Salt, Okra and Salted Butter". For more photos and articles in English at www.thelundian.com, in Swedish and English at www.afrikansksvensk.se and in Swedish at: http://sydsvenskan.se Photos from the Festival by Monique Fransen. |
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