The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) will formally commission the Salaga Slave Market and Wells in the Savannah Region as a key part of the 2024 Emancipation Day celebrations.
The celebration, slated for Monday, July 22 to Thursday, August 1, 2024, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MoTAC), will be held under the theme: “Unity and Resilience; Building Stronger Communities for a Brighter Future.”
In a recently released statement, the GTA noted that the 2024 Emancipation 2024 will include the launch of the newly restored Salaga Slave Market.
The commissioning ceremony will be led by Mr. Andrew Egyapa Mercer, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, in the company of Babanye Ndefosu II, Kpembe Wura, and Mr. Akwasi Agyeman, CEO of the GTA.
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The 2024 Emancipation celebrations will include a diverse range of events and activities, such as a durbar at Pikworo Slave Camp in the Upper East Region on July 23, 2024, a tribute event honoring the legacy of Dr. Efua Sutherland, a wreath-laying ceremony at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park on July 25, a durbar of Chiefs at Assin Praso on July 29, and a cultural heritage celebration at Elmina on July 30, 2024.
The events will end with a candlelight procession and poetry in Cape Coast on July 31, 2024, with a final Emancipation Day durbar to be hosted the next day, August 1, 2024, at Assin Manso, where wreaths will be laid to honor enslaved Africans, followed by a visit to the River of Return.
