A Nigerian artist, Vincent Kolo, has won the $50,000 Nefertiti grand prize for creativity during a virtual festival as part of Africa Integration Day celebration.
The Africa Integration Day, which is celebrated every July 7, was initiated in 2019 during African Union’s summit on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to popularise economic integration across the continent as a lever of inclusive sustainable development.
The virtual festival was launched this year by the AU and Afrochampions, a pan-African business leadership network to broaden the Africa Integration Day celebration into a month-long event, starting July 1.
The festival, dubbed ”The Boma of Africa” is a series of insightful convening with creative arts challenge to drive the ‘African Integration’ agenda, exploring themes such as “African unity is about difference, African science is universal science, Africa’s future is in its past and Globalisation is Africa’s friend,” a statement by organisers of the event said.
Mr Kolo won the visual art category with his artwork ‘The Cords of Yesterday’.
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