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Two eventful days and two spectacular events have kept Ghana on the lips of many here and it is likely to be so for some time to come.
A well-attended symposium and a sold out gala night organized by the Ghana Canada Association of British Columbia (GCABC) to mark Ghana’s 50th independence anniversary kept tongues wagging about what the West African nation’s trailblazing independence 50 years ago meant to people of African descent everywhere.
On March 23 a symposium jointly organized by the GCABC and Kwantlen University College under the theme: Ghana and Canada-50 Years of Friendship attracted more than 350 participants including local dignitaries—members of the Province’s Legislative Assembly, students, professors and the members of the general public.
For more than three hours, the audience was treated to a lively panel discussion of 50 years Ghana-Canadian relations, but also Ghana’s independence story by speakers from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), academia, Non-Governmental Organizations and Ghanaian-Canadian community.