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2024 Emancipation Commemoration
The 2024 Emancipation Celebrations is under the theme, ‘UNITY AND RESILIENCE; BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE’
LAUNCH
This year’s event was launched on 4th June, 2024 at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (KNMP).
PROGRAM / ACTIVITIES
| DATE | ACTIVITY
|
VENUE | TIME | DRESS CODE |
| Tue.
23rd July |
Durbar | Pikworo Slave Camp |
11:00GMT |
Black/Red |
| Wed. 24th July | Tribute to the Ancestors: Wreath Laying Ceremony
|
W.E.B DuBois Center)
George Padmore Library Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park |
8:30am
9:15am
10:00am |
Red/Black
|
| Friday,26th July | Durbar of Chiefs | Assin Manso | 10:00am | Red/Black
|
| Wed, 31st July | Health Walk
Candlelight Night Reverential Night Candlelight Procession(from Mfantsipim Junction to Cape Coast Castle) Wreath laying
Roll Call of Ancestors Reading of Proclamation |
Cape Coast Castle |
08:00pm |
White
|
| Thursday, 1st August | Emancipation Day @ Assin Manso
Wreath laying on the graves of former enslaved Africans
Visit to the Nnonko Nsuo (Slave River) for Healing prayers
Wreath Laying Ceremony |
Assin Manso School Park
Assin Manso Heritage Site
|
10:00GMT |
Black/Red |
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About Emancipation
Emancipation Celebration is an annual event in Ghana, the Black Star of Africa and the gateway to the Homeland of people of African descent in the Diaspora. Emancipation was originally celebrated in the Caribbean to commemorate the final abolition of Chatel Slavery in the British colonies on 1st August 1834.
Emancipation is organised by the Ghana Tourism Authority under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture in partnership with the PANAFEST Foundation.
It is commemorated formJuly to August each year.
