A yet-to-be-opened museum Accra, Ghana is getting people the world excited. The Pan African Heritage Museum is set to open August 2023. TIME Magazine said it will be the top 100 world's greatest places to visit. TIME wrote: "It will house archives, exhibits, galleries, and a theater, [and will be] a key destination visitors interested connecting Africa's history and its people's heritage." Ghana's president said the museum will "provide a natural residence and resting place all the looted cultural artefacts of our continent, which are housed foreign museums and which will be returned to us". A digital version of the museum was launched May the 5th.
The man who thought the idea the museum is Kojo Acquah Yankah. He is a former newspaper editor, MP and cabinet minister. He said the idea came to him seeing 5,000 people of African descent at an event the 375th anniversary of the forced arrival Africans in the USA. He said: "This inspired me to create the museum to unite Africans and people African descent." He wants "to raise the self-confidence of Africans as a people a rich history and heritage". He added: "The museum is special because it's the only one bringing all African heritage together one roof." He said there are fewer than 2,000 museums Africa, compared over 30,000 in Europe and in the USA.
