Members of the board in a group photograp
A 12-member board of directors of a museum projected to house one of the world’s largest private collections of artefacts, sculpture and audio-visual representations of the African story has been inaugurated at a ceremony in Accra.
The Bisa Aberwa Museum is
the brainchild of Kwaw Paintsil Ansah, one of Africa’s most respected filmmakers.
The museum, located at
Nkotompo, near Effia-Nkwanta Hospital, Sekondi in the Western Region, will be
officially opened on Sunday, July 28, this year, an event that is expected to
be witnessed by a large crowd of people of African descent who will be in the
country to participate in activities climaxing Ghana government’s ‘Year of
Return’ programme.
The specimens on display
are about personalities whose sacrifices have shaped African history, both
within the continent and the diaspora.
They capture events
within the slave dungeons in Africa, the toils of the Africans on the slave
plantations and highlights of the Civil Rights Movement culminating in the
election of the first African American as president of the United States of
America.
The board is made up of
eminent Ghanaian personalities with a cultural bent. They include Nana Kobina Nketsia
V (Omanhene of Essikado and historian), Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku (retired
lecturer in African Studies), Mr. Nathanya Yehuda Halevi (representing diaspora
Africans), Ambassador William Azumah Awinador Kanyirege (diplomat), Prof. Kofi
Agyekum (Dean of the School of Performing Arts, Legon) and Dr. Kodzo Bright
Gavua (archaeologist).
Others are Mr. Nat Nunoo
Amarteifio (architect), Mr. Akunu Dake (co-convenor of the Ghana Culture
Forum), Madam Yvette Adounvo Atekpe and Madam Gyasiwa Aba Paintsil-Ansah, both
entrepreneurs.
Mr. Frank Davies (a
legal practitioner) and Mr. Enimil Ashon (journalist and Executive Director of
the Centre for Communication & Culture) are also part of the board.
In his inaugural
remarks, Mr. Kwaw Ansah, who also chairs the board, said the museum idea, as a
heritage centre for people of African descent, was conceived 40 years ago.
He said Bisa Aberwa
exists, among other objectives, to provide an opportunity for the preservation
and promotion of the Africa heritage; provide an institution for research into
African history and “provide a platform for the conversation among people of
African descent. On display at Bisa Aberwa is how the African humanity has
survived.We tell the African story.”
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