PANAFEST And Emancipation Finalised For Next Month

Preparations for this year's Pan African Festival of Arts and Theatre (PANAFEST) and Emancipation Day have been finalized for next month. Briefing the Times t Cape Coast, after inspecting one of the tourists sites, and interacting with the staff of the PANAFEST Secretariat, Mr  Seth Hagan, Director of the Research, Statistics and Information of the Tourism Ministry confirmed that “everything is on course”.

He indicated that various promotional  activities will be listed  to make the two events resounding.

Reiterating the need for all Ghanaians to team up with their  brothers and sisters from the diaspora during the occasion, Mr  Hagan said that will make it more memorable.

Already, he said Rabi Kohain Levi, secretary-general of the PANAFEST Secretariat general had intimated that delegations of chiefs fro South Africa, and other participants from Nigeria, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, and Suriname are finalizing their arrangements for the celebration.

Highlights of this year's programme,   Mr Hagan said will include a wreath, laying at the Du Bois Centre in Accra, George  Padmore Library, and the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum on July 16.

The formal opening of the Panafest will take place at Cape Coast on July 25, to be marked with a grand durbar of chiefs and people.

There will be an Emancipation durbar at Assin Manso on August 1, during which wreaths will be laid in memory of the two former slaves Carson and Crystal, whose skeletal remains have been rebuild at Assin Manso since 1998.