The Miss Heritage Global pageant is not like any other beauty pageant.  According to Mudzithe Phiri, Business Development Manager of Miss Heritage Global, it’s an international event that is bringing together culture ambassadors from around the world.  This pageant is an opportunity for the contestants to share the culture of their home country while learning [...]

  It was a historic grand durbar on Saturday, July 6, climaxing the 2019 'Year of Return' edition of the Edina Bakatue Festival at Elmina. The forecourt of the historic Eliminate Castle played host to this colourful kente-rich durbar graced by the Vice President H.E. Dr. Bawumia. Omanhene of Edina Traditional Area, Nana Kodwo Conduah [...]

As part of souvenirs for the Year of Return, Ghana 2019 celebrations which commemorate 400year's since the first enslaved African arrived in Jamestown Virginia, USA, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture presented a peice of the 'Year of Return' cloth to the President, H.E. Nana Akufo Addo as she launched the cloth for the [...]

By Ray Chickrie – Caribbean News Now contributor – June 12, 2019 GEORGETOWN, Guyana —  President Akufo-Addo has embarked on a working visit to five Caribbean nations as part of efforts promoting the “Year of Return.”  Having proclaimed 2019, as the “Year of Return” to Ghana, the 400th anniversary of the commencement of the Trans-Atlantic slave [...]

Accra City Hotel which is a partner hotel for the 'Year of Return, Ghana 2019' has received the prestigious Hospitality Oscar from the World Travel Awards™ and won “Ghana's Leading Hotel” in 2019.   World Travel Award was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate excellence across all sectors of the tourism industry. Today, [...]

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has extended an invitation to the people of Trinidad and Tobago to visit Ghana in this ‘Year of Return.’ Minister of Culture of Trinidad and Tobago (L) with her counterpart Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi (R)   According to President Akufo-Addo, Ghana recognises its [...]

After a full day meeting fans and doing press interviews, Kofi Kingston, the first African to win the WWE Championship, paid a visit to the Jubilee House to meet President Nana Akufo-Addo. It’s always an honour to meet the president, especially for someone who never imagined the level of success he has achieved.  While patiently waiting [...]

Accra / May 27, 2019 / Written by Ivy Prosper In September 2018, President Nana Akufo-Addo declared that 2019 would be ‘The Year of Return; to celebrate the resilience of African people and to mark the 400 years since the first documented ship with enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, USA.  It was an invitation [...]

August 2019 will mark 400 years since enslaved Africans landed in Jamestown, Virginia, beginning what was widely regarded as the start of the African slave trade to North America. To commemorate this anniversary, Ghana has dubbed 2019 The Year of Return and has a robust calendar of activities throughout the year to mark the milestone, [...]

Reigning World Wrestling Entertainment Champion, Kofi Kingston has in a Facebook and Instagram post said he will be visiting home after 26 years. In a post that suggests he has heard the call to action in the trending #YearofReturn hashtag 'Brafie' #brafie and responding by inviting others to the slogan #LetsGoGhana, Kofi is will be [...]