The "Jawhara" Festival sings a hymn to Africa

Having become one of the unmissable events of the El Jadida province, the international "Jawhara" Festival, in its fourth edition, will be held this year from 7 to 9 August 2014. It is the Doukkala Association and the province that conceived this event which pays tribute to music, theatre, visual arts, and popular arts of Morocco. The organisers wish for this cultural action to ensure the consolidation of the civil space as a participatory universe for reflection on citizenship and the responsibilities of everyone in building the future of their region and their country, a gathering place for artists from all corners of the world, and a great celebration for the promotion of the social and cultural rights of citizens, culture, music, sport, and art. In this context, Mouâad Jamaï, governor of the El Jadida province, stressed that "art, culture, and sport are at the heart of development.…