A Global Stage for the Ballets Africains: Imagining Nations in the Late Colonial State
When the Wind of Change blew, it carried on it strains of new musical forms and new cultural identities on the African continent. In particular, this seminar will focus on the trajectory of Kéita Fodéba, a popular musician, poet, dramatist and latterly prominent member of the independent Guinean government, as a key figure in the emergence of Guinean National Culture who provided Guinea’s independence movement with a renewed impetus beyond Marxist ideology and demands for political equality.
Wednesday 7th February 2018, 5 p.m.
Free
Academic Building room 2.01, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
College Lane, West Sussex PO19 6PE
Wed 7 Feb 2018