{"id":257894,"date":"2026-08-02T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:16:07","slug":"photos-18th-acana-festival-at-cherry-street-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257894\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: 18th ACANA Festival at Cherry Street Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acanaus.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ACANA<\/a>, which stands for the African Cultural Alliance of North America, was founded in 1999 and offers social, health and legal services for the African immigrant and refugee community in Philadelphia.\n<\/p>\n<p>CEO Voffee Jabateh said the event has grown over the years, not just in scope but in representation at the annual festival.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we first came here almost 18 years ago\u2026 we just thought that it was bringing artists together to have a nice time,\u201d Jabateh said. \u201cAs we moved deeper and deeper into other years of the production of the African fest, we realized that this was about exhibiting continental African culture and music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACANA, which stands for the African Cultural Alliance of North America, was founded in 1999 and offers social,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31546,12925,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-257894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-africa","tag-festivals","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}