Call for registrations: Kwame Nkrumah fest in Ghana

Hosted by the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies, the festival is held in honour of Ghana’s first prime minister and president Kwame Nkrumah, a renowned pan-Africanist who led the country to independence from Britain in 1957 and was a founding member of the Organisation of African Unity.

This year, the event is running under the theme, Pan Africanism, Feminism and the Next Generation. The festival operates with the vision of pursuing the pan-Africanist ideals of self-reliance and liberation through culture, science and technology.

The festival will be digitally curated and broadcast live. Programmed activities include music, poetry and dance performances, presentations, symposiums, debates, and art and fashion exhibitions. The organisers say these activities are geared toward “strengthening African cultural industries, livelihoods, intellectual property rights, cooperative economic strategies, business models, and intraregional trade relations.”

Additionally, the festival will “provide a vibrant platform dedicated to the reorganisation of African cultural and economic infrastructure so that the vast cultural and material resources of the continent benefit African people,” the festival says on its website. 

“By focusing on the creativity of women, the youth and other habitually marginalised communities, participants will critically reconsider the meaning and definition of African cultural assets, and challenge the global corporate interests that devalue and marginalise Africa’s collective interests.”

Interested exhibitors, artists or vendors can register by emailing info@kwamenkrumahfestival.com or by completing the registration form here. 

The registration deadline is 6 August.

More information is available on the official website.