The African Cultural Festival (ACF) was founded by Uche Ozoh, Nigerian born Film Producer and Director, and Shabbir Jiwa, Kenyan born President and CEO TFLSafari.Com, to “create an unprecedented experience that will promote our various cultural heritages and to bring all of us together from our different diasporas as one voice”. They also promote international business trade. Space is given to local businesses, crafts, restaurants, and African tourism. They provide charity services, give away scholarships, and promote classes to teach children African languages, such as Yoruba and Swahili.
The festival provides a way for people of all parts of Africa (and outside of Africa, too) to discuss and come up with possible solutions to the biggest issues being faced by African countries today. Some of the issues they discuss are economic development, education, technology, politics, and cultural matters. The festival is put together by Africans or people who have lived in Africa for a long time. Most of all, they promote the unification of the peoples of Africa, and their theme song is “Africa Unite”.
This sounds like a great way to bring together the people of Africa to discuss hot topics without creating conflict or violent debate. I hope that each year brings their goal of unification closer and that they may begin to find solutions for some of their major problems that they face as individual countries and as a collective continent.
ReplyDeleteWow this seems like a great to enjoy the cultures of Africa and show other people that there are some positive things about Africa as a whole.
ReplyDeleteThis was to take place on September 25th in Sacramento. Can you find out anything more about it? It's linked to a donation site that looks a bit sketchy.
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