Ife / 3ème Festival des Arts 1971

Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Newsreel of the third Festival of the Arts in the Nigerian city of Ife, launched in the city’s university. A celebration of the arts (traditional music, photography, sculpture, handicrafts, cinema) confronting the continent’s anglophone and francophone hemispheres. Among others, the report features the Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet, writer and essayist Wole Soyinka, the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène and the Martinique playwright Aimé Césaire, who premiered the English version of The Tragedy of King Christophe in Ife for the occasion.