Nkrumah honoured at PACON Seminar in Namibia

Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah has received, among other African leaders, a Posthumous Pan-African Icon Award for 2014 during a seminar organized by the Pan-African Center of Namibia (PACON).

His Excellency Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Harruna Attah, Ghana’s High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia received the award on behalf of the Nkrumah family.

In a short acceptance speech, the High Commissioner speaking on behalf of Hon. Samia Nkrumah, the late President’s daughter, expressed the family’s feeling of honour and pride, as well as confirming their late father’s status as an African, and not only Ghanaian.

He took the opportunity to thank the Namibian Government for naming an avenue after Dr Kwame Nkrumah in Windhoek where the current Residency of Ghana High Commission is sited.

Former President of the Republic of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings who delivered a keynote address at the seminar on the theme “Africa Rising” used the platform to emphasize the need for PACON to celebrate the lives of both Steve Biko of South Africa and Ghana’s Dr Kwame Nkrumah every September as great African leaders who paid the ultimate price in defence of truth, justice and freedom.

He commended the Namibian political leadership on how they have maintained a high level of integrity; thereby, urging PACON to keep the fires of Pan-Africanism burning.