The message of Benny Wenda and Wyclef Jean

The third annual World Festival of Black Arts was the perfect opportunity for Benny Wenda, West Papuan independence leader, in Melanesia (New Guinea), who lives in exile, and Wyclef Jean, Haitian-born singer, to address Africans around the world. Wenda demanded the liberation of his people from the yoke of Indonesia. His country suffers a real silent genocide before the absolute silence of the international community and especially the countries of the South Pacific. Jean launched an appeal to the African presidents to not forget Haiti, a country devastated by an earthquake and cholera. SUMBER DISINI

he Festival of Black Arts, FESMAN, was inaugurated in Dakar on Friday , December 10, with the participation of the African continent and the Diaspora, an event organized under the seal of the African Renaissance. Moreover, African intellectuals and the diaspora have been invited to reflect in a forum organized for the occasion entitled "The African diaspora: geography, population, history, political situation." Other conferences and round tables are to focus on the black origins of the ancient Egyptians, the renaissance of black people, etc.