ABOUT BDA

Bakanal de Afrique (BdA), is a multidisciplinary Afro Urban festival by Afro Urban Society that brings us together across cultures, and showcases new, emerging and underground urban art, culture and people through performance, workshops, visual media and conversations. From its birth in 2009, Bakanal de Afrique intended to be a phenomenon that stretched the length and breadth of the world, and united Urban Africans in a unique way.

BdA 2020 will be mainly virtual.

MI SOON COME | 2020

Transportation x Urbanity x Sociopolitical Context x Art

Our 2020 theme 'Mi Soon Come' explores modes of transportation in urban cultures and its intersections with culture, class and citizenship.

100+ artists and creatives representing various urban locales in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and everywhere around will be presented as part of BdA Festival online throughout the month of November 2020. The festival will feature online releases, events, and activities, activated using several platforms; the BdA exclusive website portal with featured artist work. It will also feature live ‘on-the-ground’ social-distanced events in Oakland and San Francisco, CA, and engagement on social media platforms such as Youtube, FB, Instagram, WhatsApp and everywhere we imagine.