Pan-African festival opens in Ghana’s city of Cape Coast
- By Harlequin .
- Published 07/30/2007
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View all articles by Harlequin .Pan-African festival opens in Ghana’s city of Cape Coast
Accra (Ghana) Africa’s greatest historical festival dubbed ‘Panafest’ entered its second day on Sunday, but which opened on Saturday with a colourful procession that was accompanied by a brass band music throughout the principal streets of Ghana’s ancient city of Cape Coast, some 130 kilometres southwest of the capital, Accra.
Several African cultural troupe performers and traditional leaders thrilled Africans in the diaspora with superb display of Africa’s rich dances at the opening of the Panafest, a historical theatre festival.
The procession which also included Europeans and Americans dancing to the tune of the music, finally converged at the Victoria Park located on the shores of Atlantic Ocean where a grand bazaar was held for the opening of the biennial continental event.
Cultural troupes such as the Standing Troupe of Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture and the Abuja Cultural Troupe, all from Nigeria, Wuza Wuza, CNC Cultural Group, and Blueprint International from Ghana as well as Baby Boys from Canada gave the audience memorable performances.
The traditional rulers including those from the diaspora were dressed in their traditional regalia making the event superbly colourful.
Speaking at the function, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, Chairman of the PANAFEST Foundation, said the celebration of the festival reminded Africans of their sordid past through the slave trade and that the festival should serve as a platform for uniting Africans.
Prof. Leonard Jefferies, an African American Historian based in the New York City, said the event offered Africans the opportunity to unite for economic, political, institutional and cultural development, impressing upon Africans to take advantage of it to create wealth for posterity.
Delegations from North America, Surinam, Caribbean, Nigeria, South Africa, Europe among others attended the event.
Panafest is a historical event celebrated in Ghana biennially by Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora which began as far back as 1992 and serves as a platform of uniting African families.
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http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily_news/pan-african_festival_opens_in_ghana%92s_city_of_cape_coast_200707294222/
Several African cultural troupe performers and traditional leaders thrilled Africans in the diaspora with superb display of Africa’s rich dances at the opening of the Panafest, a historical theatre festival.
The procession which also included Europeans and Americans dancing to the tune of the music, finally converged at the Victoria Park located on the shores of Atlantic Ocean where a grand bazaar was held for the opening of the biennial continental event.
Cultural troupes such as the Standing Troupe of Lagos State Council for Arts and Culture and the Abuja Cultural Troupe, all from Nigeria, Wuza Wuza, CNC Cultural Group, and Blueprint International from Ghana as well as Baby Boys from Canada gave the audience memorable performances.
The traditional rulers including those from the diaspora were dressed in their traditional regalia making the event superbly colourful.
Speaking at the function, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, Chairman of the PANAFEST Foundation, said the celebration of the festival reminded Africans of their sordid past through the slave trade and that the festival should serve as a platform for uniting Africans.
Prof. Leonard Jefferies, an African American Historian based in the New York City, said the event offered Africans the opportunity to unite for economic, political, institutional and cultural development, impressing upon Africans to take advantage of it to create wealth for posterity.
Delegations from North America, Surinam, Caribbean, Nigeria, South Africa, Europe among others attended the event.
Panafest is a historical event celebrated in Ghana biennially by Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora which began as far back as 1992 and serves as a platform of uniting African families.
DAP/tjm/APA
http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/daily_news/pan-african_festival_opens_in_ghana%92s_city_of_cape_coast_200707294222/
