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RAMA AND SARAH BERGH \/\/ \u00a9 BUGS STEFFEN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year the Afro Project team from W\u00fcrzburg is once again looking forward to present a programme full of small and big highlights at the festival. Last year the focus was on Cuba, this year the Africa Festival thematically returns to the African continent; via the Cape Verde Islands and Senegal. At the time of the slave trade with America and the Caribbeans, the Cape Verde Islands served as an intermediate stop for the slaves from West Africa. While the Islands were under Portuguese administration, some of them stayed there forever. Thus today, the ancestors of the slaves have influenced the music and culture of the Islands. Sara Tavares, Tibau Tavares and Elida Almeida will give you the opportunity to discover the music of the Cape Verde Islands. Offshore of Senegal is the island Gor\u2019ee with its slave fort. Here, the West African slaves had the last chance to take a look at their home continent. Senegal features a long history of music, which has grown steadily. Youssou N\u2019Dour is the worldwide known embassador whose tama player Assana Thiam and ensemble will open the festival. Rising star Wally Seck, as well as Faada Freddy, Marema, Awa Ly, Moussa, Takeifa and other high-quality musicians will show their talent and reflect the variety of their country. We stay in West Africa and travel with Eneida Marta to Guinea-Bissau and Fafa Ruffino to Benin. Afterwards, in Mali, we can look forward to see the Festival award winners Salif Keita and Fatoumata Diawara again and meet spectacular newcomer Inna Modja. The young festival veterans Mellow Mark, Dell\u00e9 and Jahcoustix will prove that even in Germany Africa can be very close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A visit to the photo exhibition of Youri Lenquette could be a great way to start the festival. He has visited Senegal multiple times and captured the zest for life there. At the festival ground, the big bazaar with African art treasures and culinary delicacies, as well as info booths in the bamboo hall, the Havana Club and the inviting relaxation area where you can enjoy Moroccan teas awaits the visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TV channel ARTE is again the media partner of the Africa Festival. The ARTE movie tent gives the viewers insights into the life in Senegal. In two special movies (\u201cMali Blues\u201d, \u201cSarabah\u201d) you can see musicians who will also perform on our concert stages this year. In the daytime, you can laugh with storyteller Ibu or marvel at the artististry of Adesa, in the evening you can dance to reggae music in the new multitent. You mustn\u2019t miss the fashion shows of designer Rama Diaw with her charming models, which takes place daily starting Friday. Have fun experiencing the rich culture of West Africa!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Afro Project Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evening Programme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, May 25th 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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FAADA FREDDY<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A-CAPPELLA VOCALS AND BODY-PERCUSSIONS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In 2001, the \u2018Africa Festival Award\u2019, which was presented for the first time that year, went to the young and congenial Hip Hop formation \u2018Daara J\u2019 from Senegal. It was not just Lord Aladji Man, N`Dongo D and Faada Freddy who played their way into the hearts of the Africa Festival audience with their performances on the open stage, the special guest, Patrice, in the main tent and on the dance floor in the AKW, did, too. Now, 16 years later, \u2018Daara J\u2019 has changed, the musicians have become more mature and follow their own solo projects. In his chosen home of Paris, Faada Freddy, alias Abdoul Fatah Seck, has embarked on a \u2018Gospel Journey\u2019. His instrument: his extraordinary voice. You can look forward with great excitement to an unforgettable A-Cappella concert with lots of soul, jazz and R & B, presented on a body-percussion-carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WALLY SECK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SENEGALS NEW SUPERSTAR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Wally Ballago Seck, who comes from a Griot family, actually wanted to be a professional footballer in Europe. However, fortunately for the Senegalese music scene, it did not happen. With the help of his well-known father, Thione Seck, he was able to find his feet in Dakar with his band, \u2018Raam Daan\u2019, and start-out on his career as a (later-starting) musician. His current album, \u2018Xel\u2019 (Spirit), has now made musical history in Senegal \u2013 in fact, it is the most purchased album in the whole of Senegal. The singer, composer, author, and also an actor, was chosen as the \u2018Man of the Year 2014\u2019 by the \u2018Observatory of Music and Arts\u2019 organisation (OMART), and he, and his big band, are going to be performing at the International Africa Festival in Germany for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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friday, May 26th, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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SARA TAVARES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

THE CAPEVERDIAN ISLANDS FINEST VOICE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Mana Sara\u2019, as she is affectionately called by her friends, has been seen as one of the discoveries of the festival since her first appearance at the 13th Africa Festival in 2001. Born and raised in Lisbon, she had to find her way in the streets of the city early on without her Cape Verdean parents. The music helped her find her way. At the age of 15, she won her first music awards and, at the latest with her album, \u2018Mi Ma Bo\u2019, produced with the help of Lokua Kanza, also made her international breakthrough. With her distinctive voice, she has become one of the icons of the new generation of African-born people in urban Portugal. After seven years of creative rest, she is now on tour with her latest work, \u2018Coisas Bunitas\u2019, and you can now have the pleasure of seeing her perform again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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SALIF KEITA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

THE LEGEND FROM MALI<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The pioneer of world music will be seen on the stage of the Africa Festival for the sixth time. Born in 1949, in the small village of Djoliba in Mali, this exceptional artist can trace his family back to the founder of the Mali Empire, Soundiata Keita, in the 13th century. However, as an albino, he was only accepted by his own family after his artistic successes. He is committed to the Albinos of Africa cause and has been rightly honoured with the coveted \u2018Africa Festival Award\u2019. \u201cThe music is like a tree. The roots are African, the trunk is jazz, and all the branches, twigs and fruits are the different stylistic directions\u201d, he explained. Salif Keita himself has now climbed all the heights of this music tree and will enrapture the audience once again with his current musical treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 Bugs Steffen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, May 27th 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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ENEIDA MARTA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

THE GREAT VOICE FROM GUINEA-BISSAU<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Life, love and a homage to strong women \u2013 these are the subjects of the songs of UNICEF-Ambassador, Eneida Marta. She composes herself, but is also inspired by the great male artists of her country, such as Ernesto Dabo or Z\u00e9 Manel. She creates gentle Kora sounds, jazzy piano chords and sparkling guitar riffs, which are lightly combined with the rhythms of her country, and enhances these sounds with her extraordinary voice in Portuguese or Guinea-Bissau Creole. Indeed the greatest compliment was paid to her by Lokua Kanza who said \u201cI’ve never been to Guinea-Bissau, but when I hear Eneida Marta\u2019s voice, I understand the country straight away!\u201d The audience is sure to be convinced of this when they hear her at her German premiere at the International Africa Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo: \u00a9 Eneida Marta<\/p>\n\n\n\n