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    Panafest: A Celebration of Roots, Culture and Reflection

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    Panafest is a biennial celebration held in Ghana that explores the past, present, and future of the African diaspora and its impact on modern Africa. For over two weeks, celebrations take place across Ghana encouraging cultural reflection on the slave trade and indigenous African culture. Notable past guests include Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, and Wole Soyinka. Traditional art forms take center stage and tour operators help visitors experience the various locations around the country hosting the festival.

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    Panafest is a biennial celebration held in Ghana that explores the past, present, and future of the African diaspora and its impact on modern Africa. For over two weeks, celebrations take place across Ghana encouraging cultural reflection on the slave trade and indigenous African culture. Notable past guests include Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, and Wole Soyinka. Traditional art forms take center stage and tour operators help visitors experience the various locations around the country hosting the festival.

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    Panafest: A celebration of roots, culture and

    reflection
    PANAFEST 2019 (The Year of Return), GHANA - YouTube

    Panafest is a biennial celebration of Pan-Africanism that explores the past, present


    and future of the African diaspora, and its impact on modern Africa. Every two years
    since 1992, a variety of celebrations have taken place at sites all over Ghana to encourage cultural reflection.
    The coastline resonates deeply with the Pan-African movement, where memorials have been erected and
    tributes to the people and places that were affected so dramatically by the slave trade.

    The festival, however, is also a celebration of indigenous Africa and its future. It serves as a forum for
    discussion and recognition of ongoing development on the continent. Past guests of the festival include Nelson
    Mandela, Kofi Annan and Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka.

    Traditional art forms such as dance and song take on special significance during the festival. There are common
    cultural ties amongst present day nations and a reminder of heritage for the displaced. A conclave of leaders
    forms a major part of proceedings, meeting as the grand durbar of chiefs. Spread over a week and a half,
    Panafest can be experienced by visitors with the help of some well-organized tour operators who arrange
    accommodation and transport around the various locations.
    Take from Ghana Guide: Panafest, A celebration of roots, culture and reflection: Panafest is a biennial celebration of (justlanded.com)

    Nelson Mandela
    Early Life Political Career Achievements
     He received the Peace Prize in 1993.
    Nelson Mandela was a civil rights leader, Mandela joined the African National Congress  Mandela has received over 695 awards. This
    who fought against apartheid, or racial (ANC) to fight against apartheid. At first, he is the maximum number of awards anyone
    wanted the ANC to follow Mohandas Gandhi’s has ever got.
    discrimination against blacks, in South Africa.
     On his birthday, Nelson Mandela Day, people
    nonviolent protest methods.
    are asked to spend 67 minutes helping
    Mandela was born on July 18 in South Africa
    others. Why 67? He spent 67 years serving
    in 1918. His name was Rolihlahla which After the ANC was banned in 1960, he led a secret South Africa.
    meant trouble maker. When Mandela was army called ‘Spear of the Nation.’ He traveled to
    nine years old, he was adopted by his other countries to ask for help. Later, he began to Nelson Mandela Quotes
    father’s friend. A teacher gave him the name doubt the effectiveness of Gandhi’s methods. He  Education is the most powerful weapon that
    Nelson when he was a child. Mandela wanted to bomb some buildings, but not hurt you can use to change the world.
    studied law and opened South Africa’s first anyone. The government called him a terrorist and  Lead from the back- and let others believe
    they are in front.
    black law firm. jailed him, in 1962. He spent 27 years in prison.
     It always seems impossible until it’s done.
    There was an international campaign for his
     There can be no keener revelation of a
    release. Other countries stopped trading and society’s soul than the way in which it treats
    playing sports with South Africa. Finally, Mandela its children.
    was released from prison in 1990. His work paid  I learned that courage was not the absence
    off when all races were allowed to vote in the of fear, but the triumph over it.
    1994 election for the first time. He won the
    election and became the first black President of
    South Africa. He retired in 1999. He died on 5
    December 2013, after a lung illness.

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