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ALL-AFRICAN CULTURAL
FESTIVAL
Schedule for Jnly, 196J
The "Organization of African
Unity First All-African Cultural
Festival" is scheduled to begin nn
July 21, to August 1, 196Q at Algiers,
Algeria.
The festival will concern itself
with African Drama, traditional anal
modern, African music, dance, tr~th-tional
performances, slang with eYhibitians
of works of art and sctalptnres,
written works, pc ;et readings,
etc ., and performances by invited
artists .
Only African works will be elib
ible far entry in each of the cultural
sections .
Booklets for details an the Festival
may be secured from the "Organization
of African Unity", 211 East
43rd Street, New Yark City.
Since the Festival is an All-African
project it goes without saying
it will be opened to all Africans regardless
of place of birth, and enrich
the event with their numerous talents .
The Entire Membership and Officers
the
JAMAICAN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
141 WEST 119th STREET
of
INC.
NEW YORK, N . Y. 10026
- On Liberation Day, May 25th -
Wish Our Bro+hers and Sisters in Africa the very Bes+ of Co-opera+ion
and Par+ioipa+ion in Their Progress throughout the Coming Years .
A . SAMUEL RASHFORD, Presiden+
MRS . MINNETTE STEWART, Vice-Presiden+
MISS LETTIE BONITTO, Secretary
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THE COVER PORTRAIT
Picture above, a scene in Jerusalem, the
Holy Land, ~at which Mrs. Samad "discovered
the real and not the Europeonized
Madonna and the Child as she had
been accustomed seeing all her life ."
Shows Mrs . Marianne Samad, a
school teacher and also the directress
of the "Sankore Nubian Cultural
Work Shop, Inc." at 2140 Madison
Avenue, New York City.
Mrs. Samad has just returned
from a tour, stopping at such places
as Senegal, Ghana, Liberia, in Africa,
Jerusalem (The Holy Land),
Greece, Rome, Paris and back to the
United States.
VO~hile in Liberia, her father flew
from Sierra Leone to meet his daughter
whom he had not seen for over
32 years . It was a pleasant reunion
of father and daughter . In Jerusalem,
she is seen pointing to the
"Original Madonna and Child" .
She reported that Africa is a
beautiful place, the place that her
renowned, patriotic and devoted
mother, Mrs . Alice Allman, labored
tirelessly to liberate while Secretary
of the "Universal African Nationalist
Movement."
Mrs . Samad, like her mother has
vowed to enlighten the rest of her
kinsmen and the world as to the contribution
Africans made to the rest
of mankind.
AFRICAN OPINION