Africa Daily - Will Ghana get a new WEB du Bois museum?
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WEB du Bois is considered by many to be one of the fathers of Pan-Africanism. A leading figure behind the Pan-African congresses that ran from 1919 onwards, he became a close friend of Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah - eventually renouncing his US citizenship and becoming Ghanaian on Nkrumah's invitation.
The president also gave him a house in the capital Accra and accorded him a state funeral.
But his former home and his grave are now both in a state of disrepair– leading a group of campaigners to pledge to raise millions of dollars to build a new museum on the site.
Today in Africa Daily, Alan Kasujja asks his supporters why they think his legacy is still important today.
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Published on Tuesday, 8th February 2022.
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