We're very excited about the upcoming U.S. Africa Leaders Summit later this month in Washington D.C. to be hosted by President Joe Biden and attended by several African heads of state. You can read the interview by our colleague, Reed Kramer of allAfrica.com, who talked to Dana Banks, the White House senior advisor for the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit. Afropop's Sean Barlow has been granted a hard-to-get Secret Service approved media accreditation, and he'll be at the summit all next week focusing on opportunities and issues surrounding the booming creative industries in Africa--not just the global Afrobeats explosion but music festivals in Africa, music videos, television, film, visual arts, fashion, gaming, culinary arts and literature. Stay tuned!
