Afro-Brazilians Priced Out of Back2Black Concert
On stage, singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil highlighted Brazil’s “genetic and cultural” connection to “Mother Africa,” to applause from a predominantly light-skinned audience at a concert that black people generally could not afford – symbolic of the country’s “veiled racism” at an international festival organised to combat it.
The stars of the international festival in Rio de Janeiro were Gil, a former minister of culture (2003-2008) in the leftwing government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Youssou N’Dour of Senegal, introduced as “Africa’s greatest voice,” Brazilian rap artist MV Bill and the Banda Black Rio ensemble, among others.
According to its web site, “the aim of the Back2Black Festival is to promote encounters. Encounters between music and art, politics and film, dance and social conscience, literature and fashion, consumption and theatre, and of contemporary human beings with themselves.”
“Back2Black seeks to highlight the importance of Africa in global terms,” Lopes said, in a press release that defined the festival as a gathering “to stimulate discussion and reflection on issues ranging from social and political development in Africa, to the future of the continent, by way of its progress expressed through the arts.
The festival was sponsored by heavyweight Brazilian companies like Petrobras, Oi Futuro and Vale do Rio Doce, the Ministry of Culture and the Culture Secretariat of the state government of Rio de Janeiro, and even the World Bank.
Fonte: IPSNews.net
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