The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will be the Special Guest of Honour at the 60th anniversary celebration of the passing of Dr W.E.B. Du Bois to be held in Accra on August 26 and 27, 2023 respectively.
The two-day commemorative event is being organised by the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation (WEBDBMF) USA/Ghana, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture.
According to a programme line-up by the organisers and copied the Ghanaian Times in Accra on Friday, the ceremony will commence with a symposium at the W.E.B.Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture at Cantonments, Accra on the Life and Works of Dr Du Bois with five distinguished panellists and other scholars from Ghana and the USA to address the occasion on Saturday, August 26, 2023.
They include Dr Geoffrey Peck (great grandson of Dr Du Bois), Dr David Levering Lewis (author -A Biography of Dr Du Bois), Dr Aldon Morris (author-Scholar Denied), Dr Karcheik Sim Alvarado of Morehouse College , USA, and Dr Whitney Battle -Baptiste ( Umass, USA).
This celebration will be climaxed with the Day of Remembrance of a reflection of the Life and Works of Dr Du Bois to be followed by a wreath laying ceremony and tour of the Du Bois Bungalow at 4:00 pm on Sunday, August 27, 2.023.
The WEBDBMF is a New York based non-profit organisation dedicated to rebuilding and preserving the burial place of Dr Du Bois and his wife, Shirley Graham in Accra, Ghana, as a living memorial to their legacies.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868.
After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm University (in Berlin, Germany) and Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University.
Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Du Bois died in August 27, 1963 in Accra, Ghana.
BY NORMAN COOPER
