W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture - A reminder of our past

By :Yolander J. Parker-Allotey

THE W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture at Cantoments in Accra stands out as one of the various tourists centres in the country.

The centre which is a museum is in memory of the late Dr William Edward Burghardt DuBois popularly called W.E.B. Du Bois, a scholar and an activist.

The museum comprises four major buildings which include the home where Dr Du Bois spent his last years, an administrative building, the Marcus Garvey Guest House and mausoleum of Dr Du Bois and his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois.

Among the most prominent Americans in the nineteenth century was  W. E. B. Du Bois. He is hailed for his resilience, determination and will to succeed. He became the first African American to earn a Ph. D. from Harvard University in 1895. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in America on February 23,1868.

He completed  Great Barrington High School in Great Barrington, Mass