MUSEUM TOUR - Introduction
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Best time, to visit the centre: After 10 am
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W.E.B. DuBois Centre in Accra
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Du Bois (center) at his 95th birthday party in 1963 in Ghana, with President of the Republic of Ghana Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (right) and First Lady Fathia Nkrumah. (Header: Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, Accra)
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MUSEUM TOUR - Introduction:
W.E.B. DuBois Centre in Accra The W .E. B. DuBois Centre for Pan African Culture was dedicated on 22nd June 1985 in Accra, Ghana. The DuBois Centre for Pan African Culture was established by the government of Ghana in 1985 to honour the memory of Dr. DuBois as well as promote his Pan African ideas.What is now the museum was actually the house he lived in when in Ghana. Dr. DuBois was referred to as the "Father of Pan Africanism" for organizing several Pan African congresses in the early half of the last century. The most significant among them was the 1945 congress in Manchester. This congress paved the way for Africa's independence from colonialism. Two key organizers at the conference were George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah who was to lead Ghana to independence in 1957 becoming her first prime minister and then president in 1960 when Ghana became a republic. |
In 1961 Nkrumah invited Dr.DuBois to Ghana to take charge of the Encyclopedia Africana project.
Dr. DuBois accepted the invitation and became first director of the Encyclopedia Africana project, made Ghana his home and became a Ghanaian citizen.
In 1963 Dr.DuBois died at the age of 95.
Dr. DuBois accepted the invitation and became first director of the Encyclopedia Africana project, made Ghana his home and became a Ghanaian citizen.
In 1963 Dr.DuBois died at the age of 95.
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The DuBois Centre has the following framed pictures of African leaders who promoted the ideals of Pan Africanism:
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Highlights of the Museum:
The W.E.B. Dubois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture
A house declared a National Monument by the Government of Ghana where the remains of the man, Du Bois and the ashes of his wife, Shirley, rest in a peace – enshrined, that their memory will live among men and women in this generation and beyond. But, more significant too, House No. 22 First Circular Road, Cantonment, was the dwelling of Dr. Du Bois during the epoch-making last days of his life, and it was here, on August 27, 1963, that he breathed his last. The black and white rectangular building sits in the middle of raised walls that form a large magnificently landscaped compound dotted with trees, flowers, pathways, and aquarium, with two gates in the Western and Northern walls. Inside, the hall is decorated with the portraits of some celebrities of Ghana and Africa. There is also the display gallery for manuscripts, other Du Bois Memorabilia, and research library of his treasured books and other great writers. A special plaque mounted on a concrete contrivance welcomes the visitor with two inscriptions from the Du Bois poem “Children of the Moon. |
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