Conference in Cuba will update contexts of reality in Africa

Havana, Apr 7 (RHC) The 21st edition of the International Conference on African and Afro-American Culture, which is getting ready today in Santiago de Cuba, will take into account the changes and complexities of the current contexts on the continent.

This is how Zoe Cremé, director of the Fernando Ortiz African Cultural Center, sponsor of the event, assessed the conference, when referring to this dialectical and changing panorama, largely derived from world globalization that influences the most diverse latitudes of the planet.

She alluded to the mobility of borders, the new names of countries, the results of the diaspora and other effects of modernity that go back to the times of slavery, which behaved differently in each part of the huge continent.

From these current challenges emerge the imperatives of reinforcing identity, amid the difficulties caused by the impacts of Covid-19 and the economic and environmental crises, said the specialist.

According to the organizing committee, some 250 scholars will take part, 35 of them from 25 countries and a large representation of Cuban universities, headed by those of the East and of Medical Sciences, based in the Santiago.

The usual presence of members of the African diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba and delegations from Mozambique, Egypt, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Bukina Faso, Angola and Gambia are expected.

Experts from France, Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina are also expected. These specialists will share the academic days and artistic presentations from April 12 to 16 in various cultural centers in Santiago. (Source: Prensa Latina)