INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALGERIA November

Date : 27th November 2018 to 28th November 2018

Place : Algeria, Wilaya De Mostaganem

Website :https://fle.mosta-univ.dz

Contact Person:[email protected]

Description:

Summary In the 1960s, one attended the emergence in the United States a movement that came to be known as the Black Arts Movement. According to its founders, the assimilation of the African-American would unquestionably go through loss of identity; hence their quest for sovereignty. In the course of time, however, it appeared that in the absence of an international footprint and approving conscience, the BAM would be short-lived and sovereignty sheer utopia. At this juncture myriad African-American singers, musicians, writers, poets, playwrights, and political activists like the Black Panthers, influenced by Algeria’s War of Independence; the meeting of Algeria’s Premier Ben Bella with Dr Martin Luther King in New York and W. E. Dubois in Accra, and by one of the architects of the war, Frantz Fanon etc., saw to attend the First Pan-African Festival, organized and hosted in Algiers by the OAU president, Houari Boumediene.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALGERIA November will be held in Wilaya De Mostaganem,Algeria on date 2018-11-28

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 10th October 2018

Keynote Speakers :

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