Cape Town: Artscape celebrated Africa Day on May 25, 2025. A prominent performing arts centre in the city marked the annual celebration of the African diaspora. The celebrations highlighted African solidarity.
The commemoration of the Africa Day showered light on unity in diversity, creativity, challenges and successes and the cultural economic potential of the continent.
Africa Month 2025 is being celebrated under the theme – ‘Building the Africa we want through Solidarity, Equality & Sustainability’. Africa Month is seeking to increase the appreciation and demand for arts and culture goods and services and to stimulate competitive markets for trade among African countries.
AFRICA DAY
This historic day is remembered of who Africans are from their roots, from stories and the shared future. In South Africa, especially the Artscape in Cape Town gives chance to embrace the incredible richness of the cultures and the progress that they have made as a continent.
Africa Day is also a time to put spotlight on the voices and creative talents that make Africa so vibrant and unique. Through music, theatre, dance and community engagement, they honour diversity and reaffirm that strength lies in unity.
Considering the Africa Day celebrations for year 2025 writer Sive Wana said that she is an African and owe her beings from the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, also including the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons, that define the face of the native land.
Wana also added, from Thabo Mbeki’s iconic – she is an African speech, delivered on May 08, 1996 at the adoption of South Africa’s new Constitution.
Notably, Artscape is a prominent performing arts centre in Cape Town, South Africa. It was originally opened in 1971 as the Nico Malan Theatre Centre, it was renamed as Circa in 1999 to reflect its inclusive and diverse cultural programming.