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Remixing a Cultural Festival - FESTAC ’77: The 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture Decomposed, An-Arranged and Reproduced by Chimurenga; Misdirections in Music by Ntone Edjabe Edited by Chimurenga with Ntone Edjabe, Graeme Arendse, Ziphozenkosi Dayile, Duduetsang Lamola, Stacy Hardy, Bongani Kona, Ben Verghese, Moses März, Akin Adesokan, Mamadou Diallo, Dominique Malaquais, Terry Ayugi, Andrea Meeson, and Eva Munyiri. Cape Town: Chimurenga; London: Afterall Books, in association with Asia Art Archive, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and RAW Material Company, 2019. Pp. 445. $32.09, paperback (ISBN: 9781846382123).
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2 ‘About the Chimurenga library’, The Chimurenga Chronic, https://chimurengachronic.co.za/about-the-chimurenga-library/.
3 Soyinka's essay entitled ‘Festac agonistes’ features in the volume.
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7 In the volume, see: W. Soyinka, ‘Festac agonistes’; U.-S. C. Nzewi, ‘Mapping pan-African artistic modernism at FESTAC ‘77’, 150–1; D. Malaquais and C. Vincent, ‘Three takes and a mask’, 53–6.
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