The Ghana Tourism Authority has officially launched the Emancipation Day Celebrations, scheduled to take place in Salaga, Savannah Region, from July 20, 2024.
This year’s theme, “Unity and Resilience: Building Stronger Communities for a Brighter Future,” commemorates the 190th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in British Colonies in 1834.
Speaking at the launch, CEO Akwasi Agyeman announced plans to collaborate with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture to develop and preserve slavery sites, including forts and castles, to honor Ghana’s cultural heritage.
The goal is to educate and remind future generations of the country’s history, ensuring that such atrocities never happen again.
“The Ghana Tourism Authority, working with other agencies under the ministry, has been working on a program to make sure that the various forts and castles that we have here are developed and preserved so that this story will continue to be told again and again, not just to give us pain, but also to remind us of our story that never again, like our president said, should we allow this to happen.”
The Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts, and Culture highlighted the decision to move the celebrations from Accra to other significant slavery sites, starting with Salaga.
This change aims to promote tourism and development in deprived communities where these sites are located.
Ghana, the first African nation to observe Emancipation Day, introduced this annual celebration in 1998 to acknowledge the resistance and liberation struggle of African people in the diaspora against enslavement and human rights violations.
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