【Culture．文化】Unity Drum Celebrating Emancipation Day in Assin Manso, Ghana 2010

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Unity Drum Celebrating Emancipation Day in Assin Manso, Ghana 2010


"1st August will be Emancipation Day. This day is a very significant day in the history of Ghanaian and African people which  all Ghanaians must observe and that government should mark as a holiday.

The significance of this day is that it marks the 171st anniversary of the official end of the British Empire as it was known of the enslavement of Africans. The trans atlantic slave trade."


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