Sunday Times | Andrea Nagel:
“Afrikaburn is not a music festival,” said first-time “burner” Angie Blackbeard, climbing up the side of a Bakgattie – the rusted shell of a vintage car – to pose for a picture with the Tankwa Karoo desert dust swirling around her.
”It’s an enormous art installation where people come to admire one another’s creativity, just for the sake of creativity.” Roughly modelled after the Burning Man art festival, which takes place every year in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, US, AfrikaBurn, despite its smaller scale, has many similarities…read more
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