Festac colloquium and blackworld development:
Date
1978
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Lagos State: Nigeria Magazine Federal Ministry of Information,
Abstract
The general report; Analysis of the general report; Analysis of working group reports.
Description
In this preliminary review of the Colloquium of the Second World and African Festival of Arts and Culture, we must focus on the major issues and policy recommendations emerging from the proceedings, not only because the conveners of the Colloquium saw it as an instrument for the development of relevant policies on the questions of Black Civilization and Education, but also because this approach permits us to sketch in the compelling state interests which will be the perspectives for more detailed analyses of the Colloquium proceedings. Accordingly, we will begin by presenting in detail the general report of the Colloquium. We will then proceed to identify the problems surfacing from the explicit consensus recorded in the General Report. These problems will be examined more specifically through the reports of the five workshops within which the philosophic and scientific assumptions of the General Report were articulated. In this process, we also identify the problems contained in the explorations of the major issues defined as central to the concerns of the state systems of the black and African world and contrast these to the assumptions of the Colloquium’s Lagos Programme. We hope the result will be a clarification of the questions put to the assembly of black and African scholars and intellectuals. Against this background an attempt will be made to present a theory and history of world developments that explains the context within which the problems identified by the Colloquium make sense and that further permits an evaluation of the sense of wisdom prevalent in the Lagos Programme.