Cape Coast to hold Made-in-Ghana exhibition in 2010

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Star Black Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Jomo Hutaa, has announced on Monday that the Foundation would hold a “Made in Africa” products exhibition in 2010 in Cape Coast, to whip up interest in the consumption of African goods.

He said the exhibition was to create the platform for exhibitors to showcase their products, and do business among themselves, as well as adhere to international standards.

Hutaa said the exhibition would take place on 15 September, 2010, at the Jubilee Park in Cape Coast, and that participants from the United States of America, United Kingdom and Canada among others, are expected to take part.

He made this known in an interaction with the media after a training programme for about 500 players in the dressmaking and artifacts selling industry among others, at Cape Coast.

Mr. Hutaa said participants coming from outside countries had skills to train their counterparts here, so as to promote investment.

He said his organisation was making frantic efforts to bring down hip hop star Ackon, and reggae legend Mutabaruka, to perform live concerts as part of the exhibition.

Jomo Hutaa said, last year, a similar exhibition was hosted at Paga in the Upper East Region, where the chief released a five kilometre square acre of land for repatriated Africans in the diaspora for settlement.