The commemoration includes 2 multi-faith services – on Sunday 6th (the launch) and 27th September 2009; the main cultural event will take place on Saturday 19th September 2009 at 2pm; and a series of 6 workshops covering the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah that will commence on Friday 25th September 2009. The underlying theme guiding the Nkrumah@100 commemoration is ‘Afrikan Freedom means Defeating Neo-colonialism’. All activities will be geared towards popularising the outstanding achievements, strategies and ideas of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah and explaining the tremendous asset he was to Afrika and the world.
The main Nkrumah@100 cultural event will commence with a multi-faith libation, prayer and welcome. It will feature a programme of activities for children and youth including Afrikan drumming and craft workshops; cultural artists and performers including Afrikan dancers, poets, singers and child performers. Invited speakers on the day include: direct from Afrika, Gamal Nkrumah – the son of Kwame Nkrumah; Mama Stella Dontah – who worked directly with Kwame Nkrumah; and the highly respected community scholar activist Cecil Gutzmore direct from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. They will help us to better understand Kwame Nkrumah’s outstanding contribution to humanity. A broad range of grass roots Afrikan community organisations will also be giving messages of solidarity and Afrikan Ambassadors have been invited; there will also be participation from overseas Afrikan organisations. The main commemoration will also feature cultural Afrikan and Caribbean food, book stalls and displays.
All of the events are free of charge.
The co-ordinator of the Nkrumah@100 planning committee, brother Omowale said:
“The BBC’s worldwide listener ship voted Kwame Nkrumah the Afrikan of the millennium. We have a duty to our children to make sure that the great contribution to the advancement of humanity made by Kwame Nkrumah is remembered by all. Inspired by Marcus Garvey, he understood the critical importance of a United States of Afrika to the creation of a just world. He was one of the world’s greatest of visionaries who, understanding that ‘organisation is everything’, moved us closer than anybody else in the last millennium, to a unified, liberated Afrika operating with a just social system.
Our ancestors suffered intensely and we continue to suffer now. Our current task therefore is to produce from within ourselves and our children, an army of Nkrumahs, who together can move Afrika and the world closer to justice, equality, peace and collective prosperity. Attending the Nkrumah@100 commemoration could be our first step to organising ourselves for a better future. Come along to the events and see for yourself.”
Contact details: Nkrumah@100 Planning Committee on 07940 005 907 or panascf@yahoo.co.uk or www.pascf.org.uk
The main Nkrumah@100 cultural event will commence with a multi-faith libation, prayer and welcome. It will feature a programme of activities for children and youth including Afrikan drumming and craft workshops; cultural artists and performers including Afrikan dancers, poets, singers and child performers. Invited speakers on the day include: direct from Afrika, Gamal Nkrumah – the son of Kwame Nkrumah; Mama Stella Dontah – who worked directly with Kwame Nkrumah; and the highly respected community scholar activist Cecil Gutzmore direct from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. They will help us to better understand Kwame Nkrumah’s outstanding contribution to humanity. A broad range of grass roots Afrikan community organisations will also be giving messages of solidarity and Afrikan Ambassadors have been invited; there will also be participation from overseas Afrikan organisations. The main commemoration will also feature cultural Afrikan and Caribbean food, book stalls and displays.
All of the events are free of charge.
Kwame Nkrumah: ‘organisation is everything’
Afrikan of the millennium
The co-ordinator of the Nkrumah@100 planning committee, brother Omowale said: “The BBC’s worldwide listener ship voted Kwame Nkrumah the Afrikan of the millennium. We have a duty to our children to make sure that the great contribution to the advancement of humanity made by Kwame Nkrumah is remembered by all. Inspired by Marcus Garvey, he understood the critical importance of a United States of Afrika to the creation of a just world. He was one of the world’s greatest of visionaries who, understanding that ‘organisation is everything’, moved us closer than anybody else in the last millennium, to a unified, liberated Afrika operating with a just social system.
Our ancestors suffered intensely and we continue to suffer now. Our current task therefore is to produce from within ourselves and our children, an army of Nkrumahs, who together can move Afrika and the world closer to justice, equality, peace and collective prosperity. Attending the Nkrumah@100 commemoration could be our first step to organising ourselves for a better future. Come along to the events and see for yourself.”
Contact details: Nkrumah@100 Planning Committee on 07940 005 907 or panascf@yahoo.co.uk or www.pascf.org.uk
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