Algeria: As the West Toasted Men On the Moon, Algeria Held a Party to a Post-Imperial World
Published on: Sunday 21 July 2019
Analysis - The First Pan-African Cultural Festival, known as PANAF, formally opened in Algiers on 21 July 1969. This was the day after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic moon landing 50 years ago. But most Pan-Africanist commentators didn't see the coincidence as detracting attention from the festival. On the contrary, while the moon landing marked the white, Western world seeking out new frontiers in space, the festival denoted something just as significant: the emergence of a post-imperial world in which Alg
