UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts

First Prize: Achilleka KOMGUEM KAMSU (Cameroon). Her work is intended as a poetic prayer against violence, abuse and hatred.

Second Prize : Miriam SYOWIA KYAMBI (Kenya). Her works have a tremendous plastic quality that reflects her sensitive awareness of genocide down through human history.

Third Prize : B. Didier Donatien ALIHONOU (Benin). His work benefits from lively design and colour in harmony with his environment.

Fourth Prize : Momar SECK (Senegal), lives in Switzerland. His works express the need for unity and solidarity without which disparate elements fail to blossom.

The Jury encouraged UNESCO to pursue this endeavour and urged the organizers to give greater publicity to this Competition at places where artists meet, such as art schools, cultural centres, workshops, artists' residences,
galleries, museums, etc.