The World Festival of Black Arts

Witness History: Witness Archive 2017 - A podcast by BBC World Service

In April 1966 thousands of artists and performers from all over Africa descended on the Senegalese capital, Dakar, for the first World Festival of Black Arts. Ibrahim el-Salahi and Elimo Njau are two leading African artists who took part in that first festival. They have been speaking to Ashley Byrne.Photo: Poster from the first World Festival of Black Arts.