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SILICON TOUR 114 SILICON EMANCIPATION AND PANAFEST FESTIVAL JULY 26 - 3 AUGUST 2005 PROGRAMME AND RATES
FORWARD ON EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION " A billion Africans must Rise" as we enter the 21st Century. It is therefore for us to do what must be done in order to achieve this objective. The issue of reparation to Africa, re-uniting Africa, and formation of spiritual and physical linkages with our own, are among the dynamically appealing forces, imposing on Ghana the responsible to take the lead in commemorating Emancipation Day on African soil.
We must forever pay tribute to our ancestors in acknowledgement of their resilience, as through various rebellions they finally attained their freedom and today the chains are no more. This freedom must necessarily lead to "Positive Action". The celebration of Emancipation Day in Africa is therefore a demonstration
of the SPECIAL INVITATION Following his visit in 1997 to the Caribbean Islands as a Special Guest of Honour for the annual Emancipation Day Celebrations, His Excellency, Flt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings, the President of the Republic of Ghana, was so overwhelmed both physically and spiritually, that upon his return he instituted directives whereby Ghana should immediately in solidarity with all people of Africa descent observe August 1st of each year, to commemorate the abolition of chattel slavery which indeed was the worst form of slavery visited on the Africa.
As this historic event is institutionalized, Ghana will observe the 4th Annual African Funeral Rites of the two re-interred ancestors as part of the Fourth Emancipation Day Celebrations from July 26th to August 1st 2005. Accordingly we stand united in inviting all sons and daughter of African descent in the Diaspora, to join their kith and kin in Ghana to be part of this commemoration. We must retrace our steps, return triumphantly to the Homeland, and break forever the myth of "No Return". Come and discover the Ancestral Home, the home of your kith and kin and satisfy all those ancestral yearnings to deep to be expressed. Welcome Home! HON. OWURAKU AMOFA
Day 0 Depart from USA or Europe or Rest of the World.
Day 3 Depart for Kumasi. City Tour of Kumasi KUMASI - ACCRA Day 5
Day 7 Emancipation Seminar at the National Theater. Day 8 Matyr's Day Durbar of chiefs at Assin Manso. Also visit Assin
Praso Panafest today mark's the opening of a Grand Trade Fair Visual Arts Exhibition at Elmina and Akwaaba Night. Efua Sutherland Children's
Day 12 5pm We join the entire contingent of Enslaved March to the National Theater for a ceremony. 6pm Dinner at your hotel Optional Emancipation Day Vigil (Cape Coast Castle).
10.30 We continue to George Padmore Library to attend another wreath laying ceremony. 11.30am A final wreath laying ceremony at the Dr W.E.B Dubois Center. Optional - Emancipation Day Durbar (Assin Manso). Afternoon PANAFEST Gospel Rock Show (Cape Coast).
11am Panafest International Children's Camp Opens {Focus :African 7pm-12Midnight Evening Performances(Druming, Music, Dance, Poetry) at Elmina Optional - International Musical Concert at Accra End of Silicon Services.
SILICON PANAFEST & EMANCIPATION TOUR 001 EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION WITH OPENING OF PANAFEST 2003 &
PRE-TOUR -8DAYS/7NIGHTS (a) PACKAGE WITH LUXURY HOTELS - 4 STAR OR 5 STAR HOTELS (b) PACKAGE WITH STANDARD HOTELS - 2 OR 3 STAR TOP GRADE *******************************************************************
ASK FOR OUR SPECIAL 2 WEEK TOUR PACKAGE (JULY 26 - AUGUST 03, 2005) Book Early to Avoid Rush!
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Travel & Tours Limited, a renowned ground handling operator
for Ghana and the whole of West Africa hereby introduces Emancipation
Day Celebrations and Panafest 2005.
The
atrocities visited on our kith and kin in the New World were even
worse. Dehumanized and traumatized, the enslaved generations of
people of African descent in the Diaspora as well as colonized Africans
on the Continent, have made relentless efforts to be lifted from
the doldrums of life.
Consequently
a National Planning Committee was established under the auspices
of the Ministry of Tourism which led to the first commemoration
of this event in Ghana and for that matter the first on Africa soil,
from the 25th of July to the 2nd of August 1998. This event brought
onto the soil of Ghana, several hundreds of Diaspora Africans, to
witness the return of the remains of two enslaved Africans from
the United States of America and the Caribbean Island of Jamaica.
In a historical and royal durbar, the remains of Samuel Carson and
Crystal from the United States of America and Jamaica respectively
were re-interred in their homeland - Africa.
Day
1 Arrive Accra and transfer to your hotel in Cape Coast. Coconut
Grove 
Day
6 Grand Opening of Second Emancipation Day Celebrations.
EMANCIPATION
CELEBRATION GETTING CLOSED
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