The Pan-African festival is a celebration of Africa, of all Africas, reinventing the conscience of our identity at the same time as our openness to the universal.

Among the artists invited you can find oussou N’dour, Cesaria Evora, Salif Keita, Mory Kanté, Ait Menguellet, Cheb Khaled, Amazigh Kateb, Karim Ziad, Warda, Ismaël Lo, Houria Aïchi, Big Ali, Kassav, Hasna El Becharia.

They will be joined by 8,000 African artists and thinkers and some 20,000 local artists.

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