Newsreel of the third Festival of the Arts in the Nigerian city of Ife, launched in the city’s university. A celebration of the arts (traditional music, photography, sculpture, handicrafts, cinema) confronting the continent’s anglophone and francophone hemispheres. Among others, the report features the Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet, writer and essayist Wole Soyinka, the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène and the Martinique playwright Aimé Césaire, who premiered the English version of The Tragedy of King Christophe in Ife for the occasion.
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
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The Class of ‘9271%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Directed by John Ford70%
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Daguerréotypes73%
Dawg Fight65%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Public Speaking70%
Le Bus : Les Bleus en grève69%
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Black Sheep72%
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert83%
My Mom Jayne80%
Beastie Boys Story75%
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Tongues Untied66%
