Anoumabo Urban Music Festival

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Anoumabo Urban Music Festival
Festival des musiques urbaines d'Anoumabo
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Magic System during the opening ceremony of the 15th Anoumabo Urban Music Festival.
NicknameFEMUA
Genre Music festival
Begins2008
FrequencyAnnually
Location(s)Anoumabo, Abidjan
CountryIvory Coast
Founder A'Salfo
Organised byGaou Production
Website www.femua.com

The Anoumabo Urban Music Festival or Festival des musiques urbaines d'Anoumabo (FEMUA) is an Afropop music festival that was created in 2008. It is held mainly in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. [1] It brings together important contemporary artists from Africa and around the world for a week, usually in Anoumabo in the south of Abidjan. It is one of the largest music festivals in Africa, [2] with more than 40,000 spectators in 2017. [3] Admission to the concerts is free and some artists donate their royalties to a local development project. [4] An annex of the festival, Femua Kids, is intended for children. [5]

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History

Initiated in 2008 by A'Salfo, leader of the Magic System group (who himself grew up in the village of Anoumabo), Femua stems from the desire to offer, each year, to the village that adopted and saw the four members of the Magic System group grow up, a show bringing together the biggest stars in the world. [6] In 2008, from the first edition, Femua lacked support and was held through self-financing. It was a success in three days of festival. In 2011, the fourth edition of the festival, which was to be held during the Easter period, was postponed due to the post-election crisis that Ivory Coast experienced. It was finally from 23 to 26 June that this happened. [7] Over the years, Femua, which has gone from three to six days of festival, mobilizes more and more partners, then develops in terms of content and audience.

In 2016, during the ninth edition, on 24 April, while he was the headliner of the festival's guest artists, Congolese singer Papa Wemba died on the Femua stage, following a malaise. The festival was therefore stopped. A tribute vigil was held on the Femua stage the following week. [8] On 24 April 2017, one year later, another tribute was paid to Papa Wemba on the festival grounds. The 2017 edition reached a record of over 40,000 spectators. [9] Femua 11 was launched on 15 March 2018 by the Minister of Culture and Francophonie Maurice Bandaman. [10] Exceptionally, this edition did not take place in Anoumabo: it was spread over several consecutive evenings in another location in Abidjan and a closing evening in Korhogo, in the north of the country. [11] Only the "Femua Kids" stage is held in Anoumabo that year. [12] The 2018 edition deals with illegal emigration to Europe in particular, [13] with the central theme: African youth and illegal immigration. This edition is publicly supported by the State Secretariat for Technical Education. [14]

Femua 2019, which is held from April 23 to 28, with the theme Gender and Development, is launched on March 14 in Abidjan in the presence of the First Lady of Côte d'Ivoire Dominique Ouattara. In 2020, Femua 13, which was scheduled to be held from April 14 to 19, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and took place from 7 to 12 September 2021. [15] After the 2022 edition (Femua 14), the Anoumabo Urban Music Festival is in its 15th edition in 2023, with the theme: Food security and sustainable agriculture. [16] [17]

Budget and impact

While the first editions of Femua were financed by the royalties of the Magic System group, many public and private partners now support the festival. [18] For example, the first edition of Femua was organized with a budget of 34 million CFA francs, while the 2017 edition cost around 680 million CFA francs (10% of which was allocated to Femua Kids). For the 2018 edition, 1% of the Femua budget was covered by the Ministry of Culture. The main donor of the festival is the Ivorian subsidiary of the South African telecommunications group MTN. Even if the festival's budget is "always in deficit", as its founder claims, it has enabled the construction of at least four schools and two maternity hospitals. Since 2023, Femua has been included in the budget of the State of Ivory Coast. [19]

Partners

Femua has had MTN Group as its official partner since 2010. [20] The Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirienne (RTI), [21] the Ivorian Electricity Company (CIE) and the African Lemonade and Brewery Company (Solibra) are also among the festival's partners. [22]

Editions

No. YearDatesArtists
12008
2200911–13 April
320103–6 June
4201123–26 June
520126–9 April
6201311–14 April
720141–6 April
8201521–26 April
9201619–23 April
10201725–30 April
11201817–22 April
12201923–28 April
1320217–12 September
14202210–15 May
15202325–30 April

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