The Nyansapo Festival was held in Paris between July 28-30 2017. The festival, which describes itself as "

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", was organized by the Mwasi Collective. It was aimed at black women, for whom most of the festival space was be reserved, with segregated areas for black men and non-black people. The main space was at the La Générale cultural centre. Nyansapo was accused of racial discrimination, by organisations like

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and

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for attempting to ban white people from a majority (80%) of the space at the venue, with the Parisian mayor Anne Hidalgo demanding its cancellation.

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