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15.07.2008 Health

2 NGOs Donate To Du Bois Centre

15.07.2008 LISTEN
By Kingsley Asare - newtimesonline.com

Two American non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Promise Partnership and Entire Village, have donated books and computers worth $7,600 to the W.E.B. Dubois Memorial Centre in Accra.

The items are to assist a planned educational programme on globalisation and Pan-Africanism for senior high school (SHS) students in Ghana.

It will also provide an opportunity for America college students to come to Ghana to study about Africa.

The donation was facilitated by Tijuana A. James-Traore, President of the Promise Partnership and Seth Owusu, Director of Entire Village.

Emmanuel Gawuga, acting Executive Director of W.E.B Du Bois Memorial Centre, who received the items commended the donors for the gesture.

He said the donation would go a long way to promote the ideals of Dr W.E.B. Dubois, and foster strong relationship between Africans and their brothers in the diaspora.

Mr Gawuga said the items will be used for the purpose it was donated for.

Emmanuel V. Hagan, Director of the Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations, in his remarks, said the ministry was grateful for the donation, assuring that it will go a long way to deepen the bond between Africans and their diasporan counterparts.

Mr Hagan said the history of the Trans-African slave trade should be properly told to attract more diasporans into the country.

He said the story of the Trans-African slave trade has been told to suit the West, who were the benefactors of that heinous atrocities perpetrated against Africans.

He explained that most diasporans bear resentment about Africa for selling them into slavery adding, that was why the government of Ghana launched the Joseph Project to properly educate the diasporans and the citizen on the slave trade.

The director mentioned cultural differences, stigmatisation and cheating on the part of the citizens as some of the challenges facing diasporans who visit the country.

Later in an interview with Ms James-Traore and Mr Owusu, they said the books written by Africans was to help the educational programmes of the centre and promote the Pan-Africanism ideals of Dr Du Bois.

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