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Accepted Paper:
Algiers 1969. The First Pan-African Festival from – and beyond colonial archives
Noemi Alfieri
(CHAM - NOVAFCSH, ACM - U. Bayreuth)
Paper short abstract:
This paper aims to discuss the legacies of the First Pan-African Festival (Algiers, 1969) in the Global South, with a particular focus on its echoes in Cuba. We will discuss Portuguese colonial archives as a tool to access material, more than as reliable narrative sources on “history”.
Paper long abstract:
This paper aims to discuss the legacies of the First Pan-African Festival (Algiers, 1969) in the Global South, with a particular focus on its echoes in Southern America and Cuba. We will discuss Portuguese colonial archives as a tool to access material, more than as reliable narrative sources on “history”. The reception of the First Pan-African Festival in Cuba, as portrayed in the Spanish edition of the Special Issue of Casa de Las Americas (nº 58, 1970), will demonstrate the relevance of translation, but also the intricacy of colonial representations and some unbalances that featured anticolonial networks of solidarity. Why did the colonial Portuguese regime map those editions? Why is it still relevant to look at those archives and unpack them? How can they be used to discuss social justice?