Africa in April festival pays tribute to Gambia
The Hicks family (back center left, Tyeisha Hicks; back center right Terrance Hicks) peruses the many vendors at Africa in April at Robert Church Park in Downtown Memphis Sunday, April 21. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
“Everybody got a festival celebrating their own heritage and ethnicity,” David Acey said. “So, our efforts in the early ’60s was to develop something that could get our people into their history and culture.”
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Kambui Bomani is the general assignment and breaking news reporter for The Daily Memphian. He is a graduate of Jackson State University’s multimedia journalism program and earned a master’s degree in digital journalism from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. His work has been published in Pro Football Focus, The Southside Stand, HBCU Legends, FanSided and Wisconsin Sports Heroics.
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