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On 1 August 2019, Afro Nation (also marketed as Afro Nation Portugal) was established as a four-day annual music festival in Portimão, Portugal.Billed as the first festival to celebrate the African Diaspora, the event drew approximately 20,000 attendees daily and featured live music from Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Jamaica, the UK and the US.
4 February – Aga Khan IV, 88, British-Portuguese religious leader, imam of Nizari Ismaili (since 1957) and Olympic skier . [ 8 ] 15 February – Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa , 87, President of FC Porto (1982–2024).
FIBA AfroBasket 2025 will be the 31st edition of the FIBA AfroBasket, a men's basketball continental championship of Africa. The tournament will be hosted by Angola for the fourth time between 12 and 24 August. [1] Tunisia are the two-time defending champion, having won the 2017 and 2021 tournaments. [2]
The AfroBasket 2025 qualification is a basketball competition that is being played from February 2024 to February 2025, to determine the fifteen FIBA Africa nations who will join the automatically qualified host Angola at the FIBA AfroBasket 2025 finals tournament.
Tyla first performed "Water" in June 2023 at Afro Nation Portugal. [ b ] She also performed "Water" on 2 August, [ 76 ] and "To Last" on 6 September 2023 for Vevo 's program DSCVR. [ 77 ] That October, she made her global television debut performing "Water" on The Bianca Show in Sweden. [ 78 ]
Mestiço (descendants of Portuguese and Africans), Angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), Fernandino, Servicais (indentured laborers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde), Tongas (children of Servicais born on the islands), Europeans (mainly Portuguese), Asians (mainly Chinese) [3]
1 Afronation wasn’t created in 2013, as it says in the first paragraph. The festival’s first edition took place in 2019
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from people from Africa. [48] The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the native West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in the United States, Brazil, Colombia and Haiti.