GREATER ACCRA, GHANA – The Diaspora Affairs, Office of the President (DAOOP), and the organizers of the “Year of Return” initiative have added Ghanaian born rapper’s, popularly christened Kwaw Kese, Return Concert, and SMADE’s Afronation Concert to activities arrayed to mark the 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia.
In flyer sighted by www.georgebritton.com, the “My Return Concert” and “Afronation Concert” is slated for 20th December and 27th – 30th December respectively, and promises to take patrons on the night full of music and arts. AfroNation is an all-inclusive music and arts festival meant to celebrate and eulogize African culture across various continents, not just Africa, and Ghana has been chosen for the maiden edition during the Yuletide.
The venue for the “Return Concert” is Oxford street, Osu whiles Laboma Beach has been announced as the official location for Afro Nation 2019 in Ghana. Laboma Beach is a very long stretch clean beach which holds audience capacity of about 40,000 and a perfect destination for revelers during the Xmas season.
An estimated 50,000 patrons are expected for this festival in Ghana but some entertainment pundits anticipate the numbers are very likely to shoot up. The 4-day festival is will celebrate different music genres amongst which are Afrobeats, Hiphop, UK Rap, Reggae and Dancehall on the serene coastline of Accra, Ghana. With a very structured and serious-minded team, the festival seeks to give patrons an unforgettable même come December.
Also added to the list of events for the Year of Return is the Afrochella Concert. This is a celebration of Africa’s diverse culture and the vibrant work of African creatives & entrepreneurs. The festival is designed to elevate and highlight the thrilling and thriving millennial talent in Africa by introducing an interactive event that teaches, explains and explores various culture with a pioneering approach. Afrochellans will experience art and creative activations from the continent; celebrate African music, and taste premium cultured cuisine.
Afrochella was conceptualised 2015 by Abdul Karim Abdullah. The pilot event took off in 2017 with the assistance of Kenny Agyapong, Edward Asafu-Adjaye and a team of young talented individuals now known collectively Culture Management Group
The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birth-right journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. The arrival of enslaved Africans marked a sordid and sad period, when our kith and kin were forcefully taken away from Africa into years of deprivation, humiliation and torture.
While August 2019 marks 400 years since enslaved Africans arrived in the United States, “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans Atlantic slave Trade who were scattered and displaced through the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.
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