10 REASONS WHY FACE proposes to process traditional arts, educate the young and empower the performer

1. Because Africans may have suffered more than other peoples in the past 5 centuries.
2. Because Africa remains a reserve of humanity and the peoples of Africa have safeguarded the narrative of early beginnings for all her children, in and out of Africa, today.
3. Because most of modern forms of music and dance universally known have African roots, but Africans have little credit to draw from this fact.
4. Because development in Africa has stalled while other continents and countries had harnessed their cultures as they achieved self-defined development.
5. Because Africa has been repeatedly exploited; its core values and resources have benefitted others and deprived its own populations. Ultimately, performing arts of Africa ought to be treated as precious raw material.
6. Because oral tradition, song, dance and ritual are under attack from internal urbanisation, external plunderers and universal technology.
7. Because 50% of the population of Africa is under 20 and this human capital remains the best asset for a fresh new vision of development to flourish based on living cultures.
8. Because the performing artist in Africa has always enjoyed a unique status as the keeper of collective memory, the voice of changing society, the leader of community rituals and the guardian of aesthetic values.
9. Because the economist does not hold all the answers and the world is not a healthy place anymore.
10. Because Africa must look for its own solutions from within the continent and within the plural cultures of its peoples. Then, make new friends.