W.E.B. Dubois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture

W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture is a memorial place, a research facility and tourist attraction in the Cantonments area of Accra, Ghana, that was opened to the public in 1985. It is named in dedication to the African-American[1] Pan-Africanist W. E. B. Du Bois, who became a citizen of Ghana, spending the latter part of his life there at the invitation of President Kwame Nkrumah while compiling the Encyclopedia Africana.[2]

History

The Du Bois Center is located at No. 22 First Circular Road, in Cantonments, Accra, Ghana, the former residence of W. E. B. Du Bois, where he died on 27 August 1963.[3] It was opened to the public on 22 June 1985 and was named a national memorial in November that year.[4]:156

The Centre houses a small museum with part of Du Bois' personal library and a collection of his works, which are made available to researchers, and an adjacent shrine shelters his grave and the ashes of his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois.[2][3][4]:155

References

  1. ↑ "The W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre". Ghana Nation. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 "W.E.B Dubois Centre". Berkeley University. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Historic Sites", Ghana Expeditions.
  4. 1 2 Katharina Schramm, "Pan‐Africanism as a resource: the WEB DuBois Memorial Centre for Pan‐African Culture in Ghana", African Identities, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2004, pp. 151—171.
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