The Mirror launches National Heritage Week to make citizens know country’s history
A National Heritage Week celebration to offer the public, especially citizens of Ghana, the opportunity to visit and learn about important heritage sites in the country has been launched in Accra.
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An initiative of The Mirror newspaper, a member of the Graphic Communications Group Limited’s stable of newspapers, the Heritage Week is to showcase important heritage sites to Ghanaians on guided tours.
It is being jointly organised by the Graphic Communications Group (GCGL), AH Global and One People Travel (OPT), travel and tour companies based in Accra.
Heritage sites
Areas marked for the celebration, which is scheduled for December 8 to 13, 2014, include the Black Star Square, the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and some typical African markets in Accra. Organised visits to other heritage sites, in parts of the country, including the forts and castles in Elmina and Cape Coast, also form part of the package.
The celebration will be climaxed with a grand street carnival at Osu in Accra on December 13, 2014.
History of nation
Launching the programme, a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Classics of the University of Ghana, Father Caesar A. Atuire, said many Ghanaians hardly visited important heritage sites in the country.
As a result, he indicated that many people did not know the history of the nation.
Father Atuire, who is credited for initiating the concept for the national heritage week celebration, said the programme was an attempt to encourage Ghanaians to visit the country’s heritage sites and learn of its past.
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He said knowledge of the past was crucial in helping the people to project into the future.
“We need to go back to our past to know who we are and project for the future,” he stressed.
Father Atuire also stressed the need for domestic tourism to be promoted in order to encourage visits to national heritage sites for the people to know our history and transfer it from generation to generation.
The Director of Sales and Marketing of the GCGL, Ms Shirley Acquah-Harrison, said the week-long celebration would enable participants to obtain first hand information about the history of Ghana.
She, therefore, encouraged all Ghanaians to participate actively in the national heritage week.
The Head of Marketing of the OPT, Mr Victor Smith, said the national heritage week would be a sequel to a grand celebration of Ghana’s heritage sites in the middle of next year.