By Hafsa
Obeng, GNA
Accra, July 20, GNA – The Ghana Tourism
Authority (GTA) would be celebrating the 2018 Emancipation celebration from
July 25 to August 1, 2018 in Accra, Assin Praso, Cape Coast and Assin Manso.
The celebration, which is the 20th in
the series is being organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism,
Arts and Culture under the theme’ “Emancipation: our heritage, our
strength” with the sub theme ‘Celebrating the African resilience’.
In a release issued to the Ghana News Agency,
on Friday in Accra said the programme of activities lined up for the
celebration include: wreath Laying ceremonies at the W.E B Du Bois Centre,
George Padmore Library, and Kwame Nkmmah Memorial Park in Accra, on Wednesday,
July 25, a tourism conference on the theme: “the role of tourism and culture in
the 21st Century, the needed Balance at Tang Palace Hotel in Accra
on Thursday, July 26.
There would also be a durbar at Assin Praso on
July 27, a city tour of Cape Coast, procession of Asafo companies and variety
show at Chapel Square, Cape Coast on July 28.
“A church service at the Christ Church
Anglican Cathedral, Cape Coast and cooking competition at Chapel Square on July
29, reverential night at the Cape Coast Castle preceded by the “freedom
walk’ from Mfantsipim Junction to the Castle on July 31.”
The release noted that the emancipation day
grand durbar would be held at Assin Manso on August 1, to commemorate the
abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The GTA is being partnered by the Diaspora
Affairs, Office of the President, the Ghana Tourist Development Company and
Tribe Media Company, Nigeria.
GNA