Punctuating Place, Time, and Pan-Africanism in Bâ's "Festac... Souvenirs de Lagos...".

The article focuses on the poem "Festac . . . Souvenirs de Lagos" ("Festac . . . Memories of Lagos," by Mariama Diop nee Ba in order to valorize Black and African creative expression and intellectual thought on account of the Second Festival of Black Arts and Culture) FESTAC event. Topics discussed include effect of the poem on people attending FESTAC, marginalization of African women in Pan-Africanism, and discourse of anticolonial struggle for final emancipation and self-determination.