Dance Archive: 2nd Int'l Festival of the Arts SFSU, May 7, 1987

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Hailing up the pillars and Pioneering Dance legacies of Cultural Uplift, 
Powerful Movement, and Artistic Freedom.

Highlight: Video archival footage of 2nd International Festival of the Arts, SFSU May 7, 1987
Fua Dia Congo with African Dance Queen, Renee Puckett (iba'e) feat. Queen Mothers of FUA, Bantaba, Balle Saba with Sister Linda Faye Johnson, Ta Malonga Casquelourd [iba'e], Papa Sandor, Ta Titos Sompa, Baba Fred Simpson, Baba Yagbe, Baba David Frazier, Gran Abdoulaye Diakite[iba'e] & Community Drum Circle along with a wealth of many more Dance and Drum Elders who tilled the ground and raised the Ancestral Cultural traditions of the Motherland-- seeds planted well in the Cultural Landscape of the Bay Area, West Coast California.

MC: Phavia Kujichagulia, Griot, Queen Warrior Scholar & Musician


Produced by Baba Tumani Onabiyi for Performing Arts @Tumuba Youtube channel

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