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Du Bois Memorial Center, Accra



Du Bois Memorial Center, Accra is yet another of the tourist attractions in Accra. It is the Pan African Center for culture and it also has a research library and gallery full of manuscripts. It also houses the grave of the well-known American scholar and his wife. Du Bois Memorial Center, Accra is frequented by the tourists who want to know more about the life of the Scholar.

Located on the Circular Road, it is close to the Cantonment area. The atmosphere around the place is cool and serene and cool breezes that blow among the trees and the sunshine makes it an ideal place for the birds to sing their mellifluous songs. The place has been dedicated to W. E. B. Du Bois who loved Africa and was a true and honest man. He had done a lot fro his country and by virtue of his good deeds he earned a lot of fame among the common people. He had fought for the emancipation of the black men during Pan Africanism.

Du Bois Memorial Center, Accra has been declared to be a National Monument and is a heritage building of Accra. It is a black and white rectangular shaped building that is surrounded by a high walled boundary. The hall of the Du Bois Memorial Center is covered with portraits of dignitaries well known in Africa and Ghana. The galleries are full of manuscripts and books of famous writers. There is also a plaque that has extracts from poems by Du Bois himself.

Du Bois Memorial Center, Accra would take you back to the days of history and relive the memory of the strife of the black men. The house also displays things that belonged to this famous scholar.



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