General News of Wednesday, 22 September 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• The Du Bois Center in Accra is to receive a facelift• President Akufo-Addo is making this possible through an agreement• The place will be known as a museum complexThe Du Bois Centre is set to be transformed into a museum complex, the presidency has said. This arrangement is also to see to the transformation of the current Du Bois Memorial Centre and burial site in Accra, into a state-of-the-art museum complex and world-class destination for scholars and heritage tourists. “The Partnership will see the Du Bois Museum Foundation Ghana, leading the construction of a multi-million-dollar Museum Complex to preserve Dr. Du Bois’ legacy, over a 50-year period. “The Du Bois Museum Complex aims to transform the Centre, and create a living museum that revives the transformative spirit and vision of Dr. Du Bois for a unified ancestral home for Africans in the diaspora around the world. Dr. Du Bois, a civil rights pioneer and one of the world’s leading black intellectuals and thinkers, became a citizen of Ghana, and resided in the country until his death in 1963.
