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Get it while it's hot! @jcljules profiles 'Last Day in Lagos' photographer @marilyn.nance in this week's @newyorkermag⁠ ⁠ "In January, 1977, while most Americans were busy watching 'Roots,' 17,000 people convened in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (#festac). A monthlong extravaganza that featured delegations from more than 50 countries, it has been described as the most important Black cultural event of the twentieth century—the high-water mark of a pan-African spirit unmatched before or since. There were concerts and colloquia, film screenings, art shows, and even a regatta. Wole Soyinka lectured, Miriam Makeba sang, and Jayne Cortez denounced global capitalism in verse. Nigeria’s oil boom financed the construction of a national stadium and a dedicated festival village, where guests from across the continent and its diaspora formed lasting bonds. For Marilyn Nance, then a 23-year-old photographer from Brooklyn, it was an opportunity to connect with her roots that was infinitely more exciting than the travails of Kunta Kinte. 'festac was the Olympics, plus a Biennial, plus Woodstock,' she told an interviewer in a new book. 'People have positioned it as science fiction, but it really did happen.'"⁠ ⁠ Also: "Nance’s photography scrambles the nameless and the notable, mirroring the spirit of a festival that leveled boundaries even as it celebrated difference."⁠ ⁠ Read the full profile via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ 'Last Day in Lagos' is published by @cara_the_org ⁠ ⁠ ⁠Edited by Oluremi C. Onabanjo. Foreword by Julie Mehretu. Text by Antawan I. Byrd, Uchenna Ikonne, Tsitsi Ella Jaji. Afterword by Marilyn Nance. Bibliography by Zakiya Collier, Chisom Ilogu.⁠ ⁠ #marilynnancephotoarchive #marilynnance #lastdayinlagos @festac77archive @oluremi.onabanjo @fourthwall_books⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQyHYHuUq4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[fundgruber]

"The Biafran War ended in January 1970; around two million people died as a result of the conflict. General Yakubu Gowon, the Nigerian head of state, announced that the Second World Festival of Black Art, or Festac, the new name reflecting changes in racial terminology, was back on the cards. A committee, which included Senghor and had the Senegalese writer Alioune Diop as secretary-general, decided on November 1974 as the festival date. Gowon made Senghor and himself its co-patrons. But the 1974 deadline came and went. In July 1975, Brigadier Murtala Muhammad overthrew Gowon. He too committed Nigeria to hosting the festival, but seven months later, he was assassinated in another attempted coup and his chief of staff, Olusegun Obasanjo, took power.

Obasanjo’s tenure coincided with huge economic growth in Nigeria: between 1960 and 1973 oil output increased from five million to more than six hundred million barrels. By 1971, when it joined OPEC, Nigeria was the world’s seventh largest oil producer. It was suddenly a very wealthy country, and one consequence of this was that the military fast-tracked festival preparations, giving a new date of 1977. [...] The festival’s emblem was the 16th-century ivory mask of Queen Idia of Benin, exemplifying the desire to use Africa’s precolonial heritage to help build a new global black consciousness, with Nigeria at its head. The mask was among thousands of artefacts looted by British soldiers during their conquest of Nigeria in 1897. The Festac ’77 organisers asked the British Museum to lend the mask for the festival, but the museum demanded an indemnity of $3 million. In a precursor to current efforts to repatriate African art, the Nigerians tried to get Unesco involved, but without success. Instead, they commissioned a local artist, Felix Idubor, to carve a replica."

Sean Jacobs: Chop-Chop Spirit. London Review of Books. 9 May 2024

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n09/sean-jacobs/chop-chop-spirit

"Festac ’77 was used in a sort of soft power war with the Soviet Union for the hearts and minds of Black people, Asians, people in the third world." Podcast:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/on-festac-77/

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[dispactke]

Benin ivory mask pendant used in the materials for the FESTAC '77 festival in Lagos, Nigeria (Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture).

(The mask is a replica. The British Museum refused to loan the Nigerian government the original looted from the Kingdom of Benin by the British during the 1897 Benin Punitive Expedition.)

[touchaheartnews]

Mob Vandalizes Telecom Office in Festac Town Amid SIM Blockade

On a scorching afternoon in Festac Town, Lagos, an uproarious scene unfolded at a major telecommunications office. The incident, now widely referred to as the “SIM Blockade,” involved a mob of frustrated locals who took their grievances to the streets, culminating in a significant act of vandalism against the telecom office. The root of this chaos was a recent policy change that left countless…

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Court Remands Teenagers Over Murder Of RCCG Pastor In Festac Town

Court Remands Teenagers Over Murder Of RCCG Pastor In Festac Town

In connection with the alleged murder of Babatunde Dada, 46, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, two boys, Farouk Mohammed, 16, and Kasali Jamiu, 19, have been remanded to the Special Correctional Centre for Boys in Oregun and the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, respectively. Court Remands Teenagers Over Murder Of RCCG Pastor In Festac Town The pair, along with Mumuni Toheeb, 21, and…

[unbiddentongue]

Betye Saar’s journal at FESTAC ‘77 festival

[forafricans]

Seen in Lagos, Nigeria 1977 by Marilyn Nance via @festac77archive

Marilyn was one of few photographers who documented extensively FESTAC ‘77, check out more images from the historic festival in her book “Last Day in Lagos”

[cosmicanger]

Postcard with an Igbo dancer for the Festac, Lagos cultural festival of ‘77.

[de-salva]

From the book:

LAST DAY IN LAGOS / Marilyn Nance

Publisher: CARA/Fourthwall Books (2022)

Language: English

"From January 15 to February 12, 1977, more than 15000 artists, intellectuals and performers from 55 nations worldwide gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, also known as FESTAC’77".

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FESTAC, Lagos 1977 by Marilyn Nance

[niyiokeowo]

FESTAC 77 EXPLORATION

[artbookdap]

The honor is ours! Here's what the editors of @time magazine had to say about the books from our list named Best Photobooks of 2022⁠ ⁠ 'The Unseen Saul Leiter' from D.A.P. with @saulleiterfoundation⁠ "The edit of images flips between bursting color and gloomy weather in the streets of New York, illuminating the in-between moments that were tucked away years ago, but important to Leiter nonetheless. It is a revelatory and colossal archival project…"⁠ ⁠ @carriemaeweems 'A Great Turn in the Possible' from D.A.P. & @mapfrefcultura⁠ "This book covers Weems’ multi-genre practice that grapples with themes of class, power, gender, belonging, and the lived experiences of African Americans"⁠ ⁠ @marilyn.nance 'Last Day in Lagos' from @cara_the_org & @fourthwall_books⁠ Nance's photographs "showcase the cultural importance of [Festac 77] on individual and societal levels, as she approached photographing everyone from well-known performers and cultural leaders to festival workers and attendees with the same attentiveness and consideration"⁠ ⁠ @elizavetaporodina 'Un/Masked' from @hatjecantzverlag ⁠ "A trove of rich surrealist images steeped in beauty and symbolism… Porodina’s photography feels singular in the way she imagines, investigates, and celebrates human behavior. Previously a clinical psychologist, Porodina has a vision and voice that come through in highly crafted images, fantastical and haunting all at once."⁠ ⁠ @julie_blackmon 'Midwest Materials' from @radius.books⁠ "Blackmon asks us to approach these images like puzzles, inviting us to scan them for hidden details that are sure to induce a smidgeon of anxiety and unease. Her book is a welcome departure from reality, and for a moment, a reminder of our own, carefree inner child."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #timebestbooks #timebestphotobooks #timebestphotobooks2022⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CmenZ7NOtgr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=