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© UNESCO/Pilar Chiang-Joo
Africa Week 2015 was dedicated to UNESCO’s
70 anniversary and its accomplishments
in the African continent. Live performance
during the gala evening on 29 May,
the last day of the Week.
Africa Week celebrations
Earlier in May, the Organization’s anniversary was also celebrated during Africa Week 2015, under
the theme ‘UNESCO and Africa, 70 Years Later’. The Week proved an opportunity to link conferences
and debates on critical issues for the African continent with exhibitions of African crafts, screenings
of films (Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu, Orlando von Einsiedel’s Virunga and Justin Chadwick’s
The First Grader), food tastings and a gala evening. Africa Week is organized each year by the African
Permanent Delegations to UNESCO, in an endeavour to increase the visibility of the continent by
highlighting the diversity of its cultural and artistic heritage.
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