The Virtual Pilgrimage will take you on a journey through Africa’s rich history, celebrating its culture and heritage. Designed by one of our most proficient curators, we proudly present a collection of stories that highlight Africa’s victories, showcasing heritage sites and the diverse cultures of Africa.

Imagine a modern African town transformed into an artist’s wonderland: a creative space where digital and traditional art forms stand side by side, telling stories of Africa's greatness.

Each installation within the Virtual Pilgrimage is a reflection of the evolution of indigenous cultures and cultural links developed over time.

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Film is a powerful tool, not just to keep children still, to introduce media studies topics or to entertain, but to bring to life subjects that can seem very remote from today's world. It can be effectively used as a means to champion social change and to discover the voices of marginalized communities. The Celebrating Africa Festival presents short films and documentaries which are not only thought provoking but challenge pervasive stereotypes and contain lessons on life with positive moral messages.

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You will participate in powerful conversations with some of Africa’s well known writers, historians, business leaders, finance experts and artists. In partnership with institutions of higher learning, the Celebrating Africa Festival present a series of intellectually stimulating lectures, workshops and interactive panel discussions on key themes including wealth, culture and identity.


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The Celebrating Africa Festival’s music line up is a cultural manifestation featuring the best of traditional and contemporary African music promoting acoustic as well as electrical instrumentation, poetry and dance. This production provides you with a glimpse of the rich diversity of African heritage, but at the same time highlighting the musical forms of our shared kinship.

The festival’s music line up is coming up shortly - watch this space.

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The festival promises to showcase the diverse culinary offerings by bringing you Africa’s most prolific chefs, who will be cooking up a storm to tease and tantalize your taste buds. Tempt your palette and be delighted by the taste of soul food from different regions of Africa. From East, West, North and Southern Africa, we bring to you Wolof rice, Yam, Okra, plantains, curries, Mogodu, goat meat, and many hot, spicy and delicious cultural cuisines of the Africa.

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The festival literature offering brings together African writers and scholars to stimulate an interest in the literary arts and to reinforce the spirit of story telling by writing and reading.

Drawing upon established and emerging literary artists, we celebrate the richness of African story telling and demonstrate how the art form has contributed to Africa’s economic, cultural and socio-political environment. The Celebrating Africa Festival’s writers will also take part in a range of themed panel discussions, public readings, question and answer sessions as well as wider reaching community events such as creative writing workshops for schools. After all, literature is the bedrock of any meaningful development and the arts are a creative and noble profession which ought to be inculcated in children at their tender age.

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