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Jozi Book Fair

Book Festival

Johannesburg, South Africa
Contact:
Email: jozibookfair@khanyacollege.org.za/Tel: 011 336 9190

Description:

The Jozi Book Fair addresses the weak culture of reading and writing in all South Africa’s languages that reflect the legacies of apartheid and continuing social inequality in this country. The Jozi Book Fair (JBF) creates readers and writers in all South Africa’s languages, to promote mother tongue and to use all art forms to encourage people of all ages to read the word and the world and to exercise their social agency.

jozibookfair.org.za

Jozi Book Fair

Jozi Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

Aesthetic
Organization

Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II (born Nana Kwaku Dua)

Asantehene (King of Ashanti)

Traditional leader
Ghana
otumfuofoundation.org.gh/manhyiapalace.org

Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II (born Nana Kwaku Dua)

Traditional Leader (King of Ashanti, Ghana)

Ritual
Religious/Spritual

1-54 Marrakech

International art fair

London, UK/New York, USA
1-54.com
Description:

1-54 is the first leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Founded by Touria El Glaoui, the fair has held annual editions in London since 2013, New York since 2015 and Marrakech since 2018. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1-54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform that is engaged in contemporary dialogue and exchange.

1-54 Marrakech

2023

1-54 Marrakech, UK/New York, USA

Aesthetic
Organization

1-54 Marrakech

International art fair
London, UK, New York, USA, Marrakech, Morocco

1-54 is the first leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Founded by Touria El Glaoui, the fair has held annual editions in London since 2013, New York since 2015 and Marrakech since 2018. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1-54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform that is engaged in contemporary dialogue and exchange.

https://www.1-54.com/about/

1-54 Marrakech, International Art Fair

1-54 Marrakech

Leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora.

Aesthetic

AFRIMA Music Awards

Awards platform

Contact email: connect@afrima.org
afrima.org
Description:

All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the African Union Commission, AUC, is an innovative awards platform that rewards excellence in the African music industry and showcases the cultural and entertainment uniqueness of Africa to the rest of the world. The music property recognises and rewards the work and talent of myriad of African artists from the old to the new generation of musicians.

AFRIMA Music Awards

AFRIMA Music Awards

Aesthetic
Organization

AKAA (Also Known As Africa)

Art fair

Paris, Lyon, France

https://akaafair.com/

Description:

As a heavyweight destination in the art world, Paris’s Also Known As Africa (AKAA) art and design fair has further helped to elevate African art on an international scale. The exhibition showcases stunning art from across  the continent, and the more hands-on AKAA Underground adds a practical  element.

AKAA (Also Known As Africa)

AKAA (Also Known As Africa), Paris, Lyon, France

Aesthetic
Organization

ART X Lagos

Art Fair

Lagos, Nigeria
hello@artxlagos.com
artxlagos.com

ART X Lagos is the premier international art fair in West Africa, and a dynamic platform created to showcase and support contemporary culture from Africa and its diaspora. Since its launch in 2016, the fair has emerged as a global destination, drawing artists and galleries from over 70 countries, with attendees and participants from 170 nations worldwide, thus significantly expanding Lagos' global cultural positioning.

Source: Organization's website.

ART X Lagos

Art X Lagos, Lagos-Nigeria

Aesthetic
Organization

Abbink,Jan. “The Elusive Chief: Authority and Leadership in Surma Society, (Ethiopia)”.In Rouveroy Van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto Van, And Rijk Van Dijk, African Chieftaincy in A New Socio-Political Landscape. (1999).

Abbink examines the aspects of changes in patterns of local leadership in 20th Century Ethiopia and argues that there is a growing interest in chiefs as they are perceived to be a medium of social and political change in many African societies. This change according to Abbink is problematic and contradictory because of a shift towards democratization and breakdown of central state power which is followed by change in autocratic elite rule. Abbink argues that within these two processes, there has always been the resurgence of local traditions of chieftaincy in varied forms. In southern Ethiopia, the local administration is an alliance of two types of elders - highland rulers and indigenous chiefs or ritual leaders who represent the ethnic communities. These local leaders have always been the carriers of real local authority. Once Haile Selassie introduced reforms for regional and local administration, the appointed chiefs (highland rulers) became government liaison men, who were conduits of government policies and schemes that were deemed unpopular. They did not have authority over the local populace but had more leverage among Haile Selassie’s administration. The Surma area was deemed both culturally and geographical remote and had limited economic value. These characteristics enabled them to be elusive and do away with state intrusions.

Abbink, Jan. “The Elusive Chief: Authority and Leadership in Surma Society, (Ethiopia)”

Abbink, Jan
1999

Abbink examines the aspects of changes in patterns of local leadership in 20th Century Ethiopia and argues that there is a growing interest in chiefs as they are perceived to be a medium of social and political change in many African societies.

Ritual
Bibliographic
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