The Pan African Heritage ‘World’ Museum, (PAHM) in collaboration with Face2Face
Africa has rolled out plans to celebrate Kwame Nkrumah as part of Ghana Independence Day commemoration.
The event is expected to be held in partnership with PANAFEST, African American Association of Ghana, Ghana Caribbean Association, Marcus Mosiah Garvey Foundation, ADACI-USA, On Our Watch, Global, and Walter Rodney Foundation in Accra on March 6, 2023.
The organizers will also hold a public forum at Accra’s Coltrane Jazz Club.
The events will be interspersed with video shows, jazz and Bob Marley music and spoken word.
Under the theme “Africa is born in us; it is our heritage”, the event is to celebrate
the first President of Ghana as “The Black Star, A Pan Africanist for all time”.
Kwame Nkrumah, according to a statement issued by the organizers was a passionate Pan-Africanist whose radical vision and bold leadership helped to usher Ghana into independence in 1957.
He served and continues to serve as an inspiration to many other Black leaders, up till today the statement added.
The two-hour event starting at 16hours GMT will be moderated by PAHM founder Kojo Yankah, and will be streamed live on social media (www.pahmuseum.org).
Appearing as Special Guest of Honor is Samia Nkrumah, daughter of the great
pan Africanist and a Patron of PAHM.
The forum, which is open to the public virtually and in person, will also celebrate
African people globally as part of Black History Month.
Speakers at the forum will include Prof Pash Obeng, CEO of PAHM, Molefi Kete
Asante (PAHM-USA), Prof Michael Williams (GHANA/USA), Prof Amina Mama (Nigeria/USA), Diallo Sumbry (AAAG), and Prof K. Opoku Agyeman (PAHM).
Messages will also come from Dr Alexander Chisango (PAHM Zimbabwe), Prof Akin Alao (PAHM/Nigeria), Prof Verena Shepherd (PAHM Jamaica), Ms Carnita Groves ( PAHM Ghana/Brazil), Dr Ibrahima Seck (PAHM Senegal/USA), Hlumelo Biko (South Africa), Neville Buchana (MMGF) and Sherrie Thompson (PAHM Ghana/USA).
Others to speak are Rabbi Kohain (PANAFEST), Dr Patricia Rodney (Walter Rodney Foundation, USA), Joramu Nkumbi (PAHM Tanzania), Imruh Bakari (PAHM UK), Carol Davis-Pryce (GCA), Neville Buchanan (MMGF), Eurika Huggins (ADACI-USA) and Nana Achampong of the African University College of Communications, Accra.