{"id":465735,"date":"2018-02-19T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/africa-ghana-grateful-to-du-bois-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T23:22:24","slug":"africa-ghana-grateful-to-du-bois-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/africa-ghana-grateful-to-du-bois-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa, Ghana grateful to Du Bois \u2013 Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/25989867.295.jpg\" alt=\"Prayerful Bawumia.jpeg\" title=\"Prayerful Bawumia.jpeg\" width=\"295\" height=\"268\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519082544_19_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has eulogised the late Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois indicating that \u201cAfrica and Ghana is eternally grateful to such a great man\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments as he joined in the Celebration and Wreath Laying ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the late Dr Du Bois on Monday, 19 February 2018 at the Du Bois Memorial Centre, Cantonments, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia was of the view that: \u201cDr Du Bois was a father of Pan-African movement who led the fight for Africa&#8217;s liberation and fought for a united Africa to solidarise all people of African descent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made Ghana his home and helped in the socio-political development of independent Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis coming back home in 1961 at the age of 93 was a recognition of the clear belief he had that the emancipation of Africa was very linked to the reconnection of the African diaspora with the African continent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has eulogised the late Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois indicating that \u201cAfrica and Ghana is eternally grateful to such a great man\u201d. He made the comments as he joined in the Celebration and Wreath Laying ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the late Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":463475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}