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Ghana President Heralds Historic Agreement to Build A World-Class W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Complex

H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, shakes hands with Chairman of the Board Daniel Rose (left to right:) Akwasi Agyeman, CEO, Ghana Tourism Authority, Board Members Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Deborah Rose, Daniel Rose, H.E. President Nana Akufo-Addo, Hon. Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance, Japhet Aryiku, Executive Director, W.E.B. Du Boiis Museum Foundation, Humphrey Ayim Darke, Board Member, W.E.B. Du Boiis Museum Foundation, Ghana 

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Du Bois Memorial Centre in Accra where Dr. Du Bois and his wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois, are buried, opened to the public in 1985, but in recent years had required additional upkeep and maintenance. Two years ago, Rose and two board members of the foundation, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a professor at Harvard University and foremost scholar on Dr. Du Bois, and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor at New York University whose father had worked with Dr. Du Bois, approached President Akufo-Addo about transforming the Du Bois Memorial Centre into a world-class living museum for scholars and heritage tourists.

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