- Title: ALGERIA: OAU-SPONSORED CULTURAL FESTIVAL OPENS IN ALGIERS.
- Date: 22nd July 1969
- Summary: 1. GV FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 0.05 2. SV SUDANESE DELEGATES ARRIVE 0.10 3. MV NIGERIAN DELEGATES ARRIVE (2 SHOTS). 0.17 4. MV TWO WOMEN WALK INTO BUILDING. 0.22 5. SV/MV DELEGATES TALK OUTSIDE BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.32 6. MV OTHER DELEGATES TALKING 0.36 7. CU GUARD. 0.38 8. MV DELEGATES TALKING (2 SHOTS) 0.44 9. MV ETHIOPIAN DELEGATES. 0.48 10. MV SUDANESE DELEGATE. 0.52 11. SV DELEGATES STROLL IN GARDEN PAST GUARDS. 0.59 12. SV TWO WOMEN WALK IN GARDEN. 1.02 13. GV DELEGATES WALK IN GARDEN TOWARDS CONFERENCE HALL. 1.07 14. SV LIBYAN AND OTHER DELEGATES WALK TOWARDS CAMERA. 1.12 15. CU CONFERENCE HALL SIGN. 1.13 16. MV INT BOUMEDIENNE AND KIALLO TELLI ENTER HALL. 1.24 17. MV ETHIOPEAN DELEGATES. 1.29 18. MV IVORY COAST DELEGATES. 1.32 19. MV BOUMEDIENNE AND DIALLO TELLI. 1.36 20. MV CAMEROUNS DELEGATE. 1.39 21. MV NIGERIAN DELEGATES. 1.42 22. MV BOUMEDIENNE AND DIALLO TELLI. 1.47 Initials TS/VS/JF/LAD Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th August 1969 13:00
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- Location: NEAR ALGIERS, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
- Reuters ID: LVAX8GSX78LQGOBP38HHM1298GB
- Story Text: PRESIDENT HOUARI BOUMEDIENNE OF ALGERIA YESTERDAY OPENED THE FIRST PAN-AFRICAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL -- A 12-DAY GATHERING OF SOME 4-THOUSAND LEADING ACTORS, SINGERS, DANCERS, STORY-TELLERS AND MUSICIANS FROM ABOUT 30 AFRICAN COUNTRIES. ABOUT 1,340 AFRICAN AND NON-AFRICAN GUESTS ATTENDED THE OPENING CEREMONY AT THE PALAIS DE NATIONS, A SEASIDE CONFERENCE COMPLEX NEAR ALGIERS.
THE ALGERIAN LEADER IS ALSO THE CURRENT CHAIRMAN OF THE 41-NATION ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU) WHICH HAS SPONSORED THE FESTIVAL.
OAU SECRETARY-GENERAL DIALLO TELLI DESCRIBED THE FESTIVAL AS " AN HISTORIC AND DECISIVE STAGE IN THE CULTURAL RENEWAL OF OUR CONTINENT". PRESIDENT BOUMEDIENNE REFERRED TO THE FESTIVAL AS THE GREATEST ASSEMBLY OF ARTS AND LETTERS EVER HELD ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT AND SAID ITS PURPOSE WAS TO MAKE THE ARTS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL REVOLUTION.
LATER IN THE DAY THE DELEGATES TOOK PART IN A PARADE THROUGH THE STREETS OF ALGIERS.
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