Block 63 of Kwesi Mensah Wali Weeksville Oral History (Q26214)

MensahWali: I met my wife, who is from here, in ’87 in Philadelphia at a conference of festival organizers; she was doing Harambee Black Arts Festival in Pittsburgh and her crew came to Philly and myself and a crew fromBrooklyn came to that conference. The thing they needed most at that festival [Harambee] was bigger name artists, so that’s how we began communicating and we got closer over the...