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In its most ambitious programme yet, the 2008 edition of the THISDAY Music and Manner Festival will throw in four metropolises across the human race between July and October.

The festival will kick off in Capital Of Nigeria on July 11 and will travel on to Lagos on July 13. It will also throw in American Capital District of Columbia on August 1st while the expansive stopping point will throw in Greater London on October 14.

The subject of this twelvemonth which will see many planetary music, manner and cultural icons from Africa and the human race on show is "Africa Rising: To Observe the Best and Brightest of Emerging New Africa."

The festival will be used as a medium for Africa to state the human race that what the continent desires is not helps and press releases but monolithic investing in substructure directed at drive economical growing and development and micro finance to aim poverty.

Also, the Music and Manner Festival will be used to direct strong signalings to the international community that with human race social class substructure and microfinance, Africa will work out its ain jobs and turn out of poorness and disease.

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"Putting the negative mental image of Africa on human race mass media to arouse understanding and pull assistance is not what we necessitate in Africa. What Africa necessitates is for the human race to strategically aim investings in substructure and microfinance. And the planetary people and cultural icons being put option together for the music and manner festival will drive the message to the four corners of the human race as we seek to change perceptual experience about Africa and what it needs," an expert involved in the planning of the festival said yesterday in London.

According to the expert, "We don't necessitate press release in Africa. Rather we necessitate hands-up for substructure and microfinance. This volition be the message of the festival."

A human race fourth estate conference will be addressed in Greater London adjacent hebdomad by the organisers of the festival to give inside information about the events which will agitate the human race in the adjacent three calendar months and give new way in Africa's relation with the remainder of the world.