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Dakar, July 12 (APS) – Teacher-researcher Ibrahima Wane pleaded Thursday in Dakar for a return of the National Festival of Arts and Culture (FESNAC) to "certain fundamentals" which he says have has not been achieved since its launch in 1997.
"After twenty years, it is inevitably necessary to readjust in the light of new challenges, to review the texts, the orientations, to return to certain fundamentals that we are leaving or that do not "
Mr. Wane, Professor of Oral African Literature at the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) of Dakar, considers this to be a fundamental issue. FESNAC
He took part in the evaluation meeting of the 10th edition of FESNAC, chaired by the Minister of Culture Abdou Latif Coulibaly.
The academic believes that through his proposals ns, it is a question of "returning to the biennale, to the infrastructure policy, to the animation of the host region, to the investment of the heritage", the idea of departure of FESNAC being that this festival must be "a showcase of the performing arts of Senegal with a scientific aspect" represented by its symposium.
"The State must give more dignity and prestige to FESNAC as one of the largest cultural events it organizes in terms of folk art, and this will impose local communities to play their score as it is a decentralized competence, "said Ibrahima Wane.
He referred to another concern, which concerns the preparation of FESNAC and the designation of the receiving region as soon as the results are announced.
"These are budgets, adjustments and forecasts to be made, it is a biennale and I hope that it will become again, it is necessary at the end of FESNAC that the region of as in the case of major sporting, cultural competitions (…) "In this way, the academic emphasizes," no local authority can say that it was caught off guard. "
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Participants in this evaluation of FESNAC raised other issues, including "the guarantee of insurance cover for displaced artists", in the light of the recorded fatal accident. during the last edition of the festival and which cost the life to the musician of Saint-Lo Khabane Thiam
The Minister of Culture Abdou Latif Coulibaly has expressed his "reservations on certain statements", saying that "dignity is given to FESNAC by the preoccupation of the supreme authority, by the presence of a minister of the Republic within this activity '', besides a budget and laws "are voted for financial attributions to this event".
Regarding the periodicity of the event, the minister said "agree in principle" for the festival to become biennial again, ensuring that it has "no form of reluctance to do so".
"I also conclude" on this point to say that "we ourselves have looked at the situation and to be more efficient, so that FESNAC is a place of rendezvous and presence of Senegalese citizens, we need this biennale, "he adds.
The National Festival of Arts and Culture, launched in 1997, was one of the" strong recommendations "of the symposium on" Cultural Convergences within of the Senegalese nation ", held in 1994 in Kaolack (center).
It was organized successively in Thiès (1997), Dakar (1999), Ziguinchor (2001 and 2003), Tambacounda (2005), Saint -Louis (2007 and 2012), Kolda (2016) and Louga (2017).
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