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Cincinnati’s largest African cultural celebration returns this month

On July 18, the city’s largest celebration of African food and culture returns to Sawyer Point Park. AfriFest is hosted every year by the African Professionals Network (APNET), a non-profit organization formed in 2010 to bring members of the African diaspora in Cincinnati together. Prince Ellis, the organization’s co-founder and president, started the event in 2017. “We realized there are different groups from African countries all over the city, but they were very highly fragmented.…