Slave Route Experience (Northern Pilgrimage)- Leading up to the festival a 3-4day pilgrimage along the slave route mapped under the UNESCO slave route project will be offered as an option. Atonement ceremonies developed over the last few years will be held. Sites of Memory which hold the untold stories of excruciating burden and tremendous resilience […]
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE 19TH-23RD JULYSLAVE ROUTE PILGRIMAGE Pikworo Slave Camp, to Salaga, to Bono Manso, to Assin Praso, to Accra MONDAY, 24TH JULYTRIBUTE TO THE ANCESTORS: WREATH LAYING CEREMONY 09:00 GMT @ W.E.B. Du Bois Centre 10:00 GMT @ George Padmore Centre 11:00 GMT @ Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park PAN AFRICAN ARTS MARKET Artifacts, Fashion, […]
RETURN JOURNEY AND AKWAABA CEREMONY The Programme will begin in the early morning with a gathering at the entrance of the Cape Coast Castle/Dungeon. A limited number of pre-selected Returnees will form a circle to invoke the spirit of the ancestors before proceeding to and through the “Door of No Return” to board canoes to […]
PROPOSED PROGRAMME 2024 EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION THEME: ‘UNITY AND RESEILIENCE; BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE’ DATE ACTIVITY VENUE TIME 23RD JULY 2024 DURBAR PIKWORO SLAVE CAMP 11: 00 AM 24TH JULY 2024 TRIBUTE TO THE ANCESTORS; WREATH LAYING CEREMONY IN ACCRA DRESS CODE: BLACK/RED W.E.B. DUBOIS CENTRE GEORGE PADMORE LIBRARY KWAME NKRUMAH […]
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