The annual ODUNDE Street Festival brings a genuine taste of Africa to South Street and one of Philadelphia’s oldest, historically African-American neighborhoods.
The enormous festival, which began in 1975, takes over a dozen-block radius in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood, gathering hundreds of vendors from around the world.
The 2021 event is scheduled for Sunday, June 13, following a week of events that kicks off on June 6.
ODUNDE is a Yoruba word that means “Happy New Year.” Every year, the ODUNDE Festival draws vendors from not only America but from an array of African and Caribbean countries as well.
Headquartered in Graduate Hospital, streets will be blocked off to make way for the thousands and thousands of visitors slated to pass through the neighborhood.
Festival-goers can stroll the area from 23rd and Lombard streets to Grays Ferry Avenue and Christian Street, and from 20th and South streets to 24th and South streets.
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