World Festival of Black Arts: a once in a decade event

How Britain's Kwame Kwei-Armah amassed 6,000 artists for a festival that has only happened three times in 40 yearsHow did a British actor and playwright end up curating a massive festival of black culture in Africa? Speaking on Skype from Dakar, Senegal, Kwame Kwei-Armah is describing the most head-spinning three weeks of his life as artistic director of last month's World Festival of Black Arts. "The last thing I directed [2008's Let There Be Love] had seven actors, and here I am directing a st...

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