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Having flown from New York City, USA, Nina Simone and Babatunde Olantunji arrive at Lagos Airport, Lagos, Nigeria, Africa, to perform in the AMSAC Arts Festival.Full article:
Nina Simone : All around us were black faces, and I felt for the first time the spiritual relaxation any Afro-American feels on reaching Africa. I didn’t feel like I’d come home when I arrived in Lagos, but I knew I’d arrived somewhere important and that Africa mattered to me […]. [I]t wasn’t Nigeria I arrived in – it was AFRICA.’
(Source : Nina Simone Autobiography, 1991)
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(Source : Nina Simone Autobiography, 1991)