This year’s Emancipation celebrations are made more significant with the visit of His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene (King of Asante Kingdom). The Monarch, who is also the Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), is a special guest of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.
His Majesty will be the Feature Speaker at the 21st Annual Transatlantic Trade and Investment Symposium on Monday 31st July. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Senator the Honourable Paula Gopee Scoon will bring Opening Remarks at the symposium.
His Majesty will bring greetings from Africa at the start of the Kambule Street Procession on Tuesday 1st August, at the Treasury Building at 8am. The visually stunning street parade will end at the Village at the Queen’s Park Savannah. His Majesty will then Address the Celebrations at the Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village at 2:30pm on Emancipation Day.
“The Pan African Festival commemorating Emancipation continues to be the largest celebration of Africa, outside Africa,” said Zakiya Uzoma-Wadada, Executive Chairman of the ESCTT . “Every year, from its birth in 1992, we at the ESCTT have taken great pride in hosting what has become one of Trinidad and Tobago’s premier heritage festivals. We welcome the increasing numbers of visitors from abroad who join hundreds of thousands of our citizens to remember and celebrate a great victory of our African foreparents”.