Inaugural African arts and culture festival will bring emerging, contemporary artists to Yale

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Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, a veteran documentary photographer whose recent work focuses on Senegal, will take part in a panel discussion on contemporary African visual art.
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Michael Veal, professor of music and African American studies, will moderate a panel titled "Modern Africa in the Mind of the Diaspora."
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2012 Yale World Fellow Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, founder of Cassava Republic Press, a Nigerian publishing house dedicated to highlighting diverse African voices, will lead a discussion on the role of Western validation in the production of contemporary African literature.
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Designers from 54 Kingdoms, a Pan-African fashion house based in New Haven, who have participated in Africa Fashion Week for the past six years, will give a talk on the design model behind their luxury pieces, each inspired by a different African aesthetic.
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Kenya’s Just A Band will headline a free concert at Battell Chapel.
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Just a Band frontman and TED fellow Bill Sellanga will speak about the enduring relationship between music, politics, and activism in Africa in a panel discussion.
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The panel discussion will also include Jean Grae, an internationally renowned South African-born hip hop artist.
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Sahr Ngaujah, an award-winning lead actor in the acclaimed Broadway musical “Fela!” and frontman of the new musical project “FELA aKUsTIC," will also participate in the panel discussion.
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