Los Angeles Joins in Africa Day 2012 Celebrations

2012 Africa Day Los Angeles

Memorial Day Weekend Brings Free One-Day Cultural Celebration of Africa

Saturday, May 26, 2012
11AM-7PM
California State University Dominguez Hills
1000 East Victoria Street Carson, CA 90747
Vendor booths or more information: (323) 993-8662

Los Angeles will join other US cities and countries in Africa in commemorating the 39^th Africa Day with a free one-day cultural festival on Saturday, May 25 from 11AM to 7PM in Carson at California State University Dominguez Hills (1000 East Victoria Street). Africa Day Los Angeles 2012, will feature arts, crafts, business development, music, dancing, and food from the African Diaspora.  Presented by the Vuvuzela Foundation, a Los Angeles based African media and marketing organization, the 2012 event is themed “Akwantukesse,” which is Ghanaian for “the great journey,” and will be a “homecoming of our brothers and sisters” say organizers Aya Charlotte Kouassi (Ivory Coast) and Isaac Appiah (Ghana). For more information, please call (323) 993-8662.

According to the U.S. Census, it is estimated that the current population of African immigrants to the United States is about 881,300. In Los Angeles County there are about 26,000 Africans representing almost 3 percent of the black population. African countries in Los Angeles County with the most immigrants include Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa.

The 2012 Africa Day celebration is sponsored in part by: CaribPress, Afrozon Social Network, NIX Financial, Northgate Financial, MoneyGram, JONS, and Image Global.

About Africa Day

African Day was established to commemorate the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963 when leaders of 30 of then 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 1991, the OAU established the African Economic Community, and in 2002 the OAU established its own successor, the African Union. Even though the OAU is now referred to as the African Union, the name and date of Africa Day was retained as a celebration of African unity with celebrations held annually throughout Africa’s 54 countries, as well as by Africans and African-Americans in the diaspora, including the US.