Boujdour (Refugee Camps), Nove 6, 2017 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario front, Brahim Ghali, on Monday oversaw the closing of the 11th Edition of International Art Festival in Western Sahara (ARTifariti) under the theme "Thinking And Creating ... Forward, " in the presence the participating of international and national artists.
ARTifariti was born in 2007 as a collective action against the Wall of Shame that breaks in two the territory of Western Sahara, the last colony of Africa, under illegal and brutal Moroccan occupation. ARTifariti is designed as a tool to make the struggles for dignity visible. Materializing human rights, the right to dignity, from artistic practices. Its format is that of an international meeting of artists that intends to reframe the enclave of Tifariti, bombarded with napalm and white phosphorus the same day of ceasefire. (SPS)
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