World African and Afro-Descendant Culture Day

Contemporary progressions and retreats around VOODOO

World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture, celebrated on January 24

UNESCO proclaimed January 24 as World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture at its 40th General Conference session in 2019. This day celebrates the many living cultures of the African continent and of African diasporas around the world, and promotes them as an effective lever for sustainable development, dialogue, and peace. As a rich source of shared world heritage, the promotion of African and Afro-descendant culture is essential for the development of the continent and for humanity in general.

IESA celebrates the V^th edition of the World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture (JMCA) with a targeted program built around the current activities of two partners very active in the business field. A focus through an exhibition and a discussion panel will emphasize the place of the sacred and Vodun in contemporary art.

This day will begin with meetings.

Alain Bidjeck, director of MOCA, an international gathering whose mission is to showcase young entrepreneurs from Africa and its diaspora, will speak about the 20-22 edition held in Rwanda and the one to be held next year in Rabat.

Edwige Apoglan, Rafiy Okefolahan, and Kevin Ademola Sangosanya will be the three guest artists of the day.

They will illustrate Yoruba culture, Beninese Vodun, and Haitian Vodou.

Rafiy Okefolahan, a Beninese artist, will open the exhibition’s opening with a performance at 18:00.

This day is offered in partnership with Africa by art - ABA, a platform led by Olivier Laurac Mbilia.

The exhibition titled Contemporary Progressions and Retreats around Vodun will host works by Kevin Ademola Sangosanya and Edwige Apoglan and will run until January 31.

Students in the Professional Master’s in Art Market and Exhibition Curation are partnered with the Africa department of the Applied Research Center in Contemporary Cultures to produce this day.

Opening reservation link: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/autour-du-vaudou-benin-haiti-nigeria-tickets-521050464967