Ghana to host Pan-African World Heritage Conference in August

Dr Yaw O. Adutwum, Minister of Education will deliver the opening speech at the First Pan-African World Heritage Conference in Accra on August 6, 2021.

A statement copied to the Ghanaian News Agency said the three-day event August 5-7, 2021 will be hybrid and virtual at the Association of African Universities in Accra, Ghana.

The theme of the conference is “Building bridges between Africans around the world through stock market, culture, technology and innovation”.

The conference will bring together Pan-African visionaries and innovators, academics and educators, religious and spiritual leaders, entrepreneurs, activists, technicians, and Pan-African student organizations and institutions from around the world.

Among the many speakers present at the conference would be: Prof. Molefi Kete Asante from Temple University, USA, Dr Runoko Rashidi, historian and public speaker, Prof. Maulana Karenga, professor of African studies and founder of the festival Kwanzaa, Professor Emeritus Kofi Asare Opoku of Ghana, and Professor Emeritus Rupert Lewis of Jamaica,

The others are: Professor Emeritus Iva Carruthers from California, Mr Onyekachi Wambu from AFFORD-UK, Dr Aurola Vergara-Figueroa from Colombia, Professor Toyin Falola from the University of Texas at Austin and Dr Sheila Walker, anthropologist culture, United States.

The conference follows the groundbreaking cutting of grass for the construction of the Pan-African World Heritage Museum, which would be completed in December 2022 and put into operation in Ghana in July 2023.

The heritage museum complex will provide the opportunity to unlearn and relearn the history, culture, ideals and civilization of Africa from the creation of mankind to the present day.

The complex, the first living museum of its kind in Africa, will host the Pan-African Heroes Park, the Palace of the African Kingdoms, the African Medicinal Plant Village and a host of experiential programs and activities.

The museum project is endorsed by the African Union Commission, the Association of African Universities, UNESCO, the NAACP and other international organizations.