Block 73 of Jitu Weusi Weeksville Oral History (Q25915)

Jitu Weusi: It started off as the African Street Festival, later on it became the International African Arts Festival. It happened like this: In 1970 and ’71 we noticed a pattern; the pattern was we would run out of money at mid-end of June, and we’d have debt. My thing was always pay off debt, don’t accumulate any debt, figure out ways to pay off debt. So we wanted to figure out a way to make...