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ACDA plans for 173rd Emancipation Anniversary

Jul 28, 2011 News

On Monday, August 1, next, Guyana will commemorate the 173rd anniversary of Emancipation. This year the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) commemorates the end of chattel slavery in 1838 with its 15th annual Emancipation Day Festival at the National Park.
However, leading up to the big celebration, there will be a series of events around the country prior to the big celebration. Some of these activities will include nights of drumming by members of the IFA House, which will be held at Demico House, Stabroek, Nzingha concerts in Bartica and Linden.
There will also be African dress completion which will be held at different companies, symposiums, exhibitions and a series of cultural programmes.
On Monday, there will be the grand libation ceremony with groups from across Guyana.  This will be held at the National Park. Later in the day there will be the ‘kids tent’ where there will be storytelling, face painting and other entertainment.
This will be followed by the ‘Hello Africa Parade, which will feature children and models exhibiting Africa wear. There will also be a short Emancipation Day message. The day’s activities will conclude with a cultural programme, which will feature chanting, key facts, featuring groups from Suriname, Trinidad and locals. Meanwhile, executive member of ACDA, Eric Phillips, said that in a move away from the tradition of celebrating a single African country each Emancipation Day, ACDA will celebrate all 54 African countries this year.
“Mother Africa, where human life began millions of years ago, is therefore what ACDA and many other groups globally will celebrate this year’. He said the celebration of Mother Africa underscores the reality that Africans were brutally dispersed throughout the world during the Arab and European slave trades, and most Africans in the Diaspora cannot be sure of which African country their foreparents and ancestors lived in.
Phillips said that given the meaning of ‘Emancipation’ ACDA will commemorate this year’s anniversary by highlighting the birth of the Republic of South Sudan which is the 193rd independent nation recognised by the United Nations.
Traditionally, each year ACDA honours and highlights a village bought by freed Africans. This year, in honour of the great achievement of the African Village Movement in Guyana, ACDA will celebrate the more than 100 villages bought by the freed slaves after Emancipation.

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