{"id":822,"date":"2011-09-27T06:41:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/min-on.matthewbyrt.com\/zh-hans\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/african-series\/"},"modified":"2011-09-27T06:41:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T06:41:15","slug":"african-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/822\/african-series\/","title":{"rendered":"African Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his Peace Proposal submitted to the United Nations in 2001, Min-On Founder Daisaku Ikeda said, \u201cAfrica is the birthplace of humankind. It has been a continent of hope, giving rise to a rich diversity of civilizations since ancient times which have given humanity numerous blessings in many areas, including philosophy and science. It has long been my belief that the 21st century must be the century of Africa.\u201d Based on this conviction, and to develop friendships with various African countries and contribute to the realization of an African century, the Min-On Concert Association initiated its first cultural exchange with an African nation in 1971. Since 1999, Min-On has engaged in the concert series entitled <em>A Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em>, which aims to introduce a variety of rich musical and dance cultures unique to the African countries, each of which has its own distinctive ethnic and tribal heritage.<\/p>\n<h2>Concert History<\/h2>\n<div class=\"side-images-dates\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/thumbnail-african-series1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The National Ballet of the Republic of Guinea in 1975\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" \/>The National Ballet of the Republic of Guinea in 1975 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/thumbnail-african-series6.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kenyan National Dancers and Drummers in 1991\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" \/>Kenyan National Dancers and Drummers in 1991 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/thumbnail-african-series5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"African Pop Group \u201cTatunane\u201d from Tanzania in 1992\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" \/>African Pop Group \u201cTatunane\u201d from Tanzania in 1992 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/09\/thumbnail-african-series3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The World of Madagascan Music in 2007\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" \/>The World of Madagascan Music in 2007<\/div>\n<ul class=\"dates-list dates-list-same-line\">\n<li><span>July 1971 &#8211; Guinea<\/span>The National Ballet of the Republic of Guinea<\/li>\n<li><span>March 1991 &#8211; Kenya<\/span>Kenyan National Dancers and Drummers<\/li>\n<li><span>March 1992 &#8211; Egypt<\/span>Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe <em>Al-Tannoura<\/em> and the National Arab Music Ensemble<\/li>\n<li><span>July 1992 &#8211; Nigeria<\/span>The National Troupe of Nigeria<\/li>\n<li><span>October 1992 &#8211; Tanzania<\/span>African pop group Tatunane<\/li>\n<li><span>October 1995 &#8211; South African<\/span>African percussion group Amampondo<\/li>\n<li><span>December 1997 &#8211; Ghana<\/span><em>Ghana at Forty<\/em> exhibition at Min-On Center<\/li>\n<li><span>August 1999 &#8211; Ethiopia<\/span><em>A Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em> (1) \u2013 Ethiopian National Folk Music and Dance Troupe<\/li>\n<li><span>August 2001 &#8211; Zambia<\/span><em>A Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em>\u201d (2) \u2013 Zambia National Dance Troup<\/li>\n<li><span>August 2003 &#8211; Morocco<\/span><em>\u201cA Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em>\u201d (3) \u2013 The Music of Morocco with Amina Alaoui, Tachinouit and Gnawa<\/li>\n<li><span>August 2005 &#8211; Senegal<\/span><em>\u201cA Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em> (4) \u2013 Senegal\u2019s National Ballet \u201cLa Linguere\u201d<\/li>\n<li><span>August 2007 &#8211; Madagascar<\/span><em>A Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em> (5) \u2013 The World of Madagascan Music<\/li>\n<li><span>September 2010 &#8211; Cameroon<\/span><em>A Musical Voyage across Africa<\/em> (6) \u2013 The National Ballet of Cameroon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Peace Proposal submitted to the United Nations i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Chinese Simplified - Min-On Website","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.min-on.org\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}