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Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park revamp to boost tourism in Ghana

By Mohammed Awal

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Posted on July 20, 2023 15:37

A statue of the first president of Ghana after independence, Kwame Nkrumah, in the memorial park at the Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra (Ghana) in August 2018. | usage worldwide (Photo by Rita Funk / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance/AFP)
A statue of the first president of Ghana after independence, Kwame Nkrumah, in the memorial park at the Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra (Ghana) in August 2018. | usage worldwide (Photo by Rita Funk / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance/AFP)

Ghana’s Tourism Development Project will attract international and local tourists to the country, providing a much needed revenue boost.

“It was [a] moment of mixed feelings,” Francis Botchwey- Dadzie, a finance manager from Accra tells The Africa Report during his first visit to the redeveloped Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park.

There was a time in Ghana’s history when Kwame Nkrumah was seen as “a demon whose pictures we vowed never to sight our eyes on”, he says.

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