CANCELLED: Insights into the Spiritual Aspects of Governance in Africa: A Reflection on the Akan of Africa with Nana Kobina Nketsia V, the Omanhen of Essikado Traditional Area of Ghana

  • Saturday, February 25, 2023
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Thurgood Marshall Center, 1816 12th Street NW, Washington, DC

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Insights into the Spiritual Aspects of Governance in Africa: A Reflection on the Akan of Africa

with Nana Kobina Nketsia V, the Omanhen of Essikado Traditional Area of Ghana


Nana Nketsia V is looking forward to meeting with members of the DC Pan-African, Nationalist, and Spiritual community to share philosophical discourse about spiritual aspects of governance while considering the Akan peoples approach to spiritual practice in conjunction and collaboration with governance.

Nana Kobina Nketsia V and his delegation bring a message:

It takes an African to perceive the spirit/soul as the basis of social existence. Hence, the soul of Africa finds expression in the indigenous charters which emanate from the vitality of the African’s spirituality. This spirituality manifests in communal conduct and organization enshrined in the socio-spiritual philosophy of Ubuntu. The Book of Kheti teaches: “Follow in the footsteps of your ancestors, for the mind is trained through knowledge.” Among the Akan of Africa, as an illustration, the mind of the Ancestors and the socio-spiritual existential philosophy is preserved and treasured in the title Nana.

“Every race ... has a soul, and the soul of the race finds expression in its institutions, and to kill those institutions is to kill the soul – a terrible homicide. ‘Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul’.”---Edward Blyden


This will be a hybrid program on

Saturday, February 25th, 2023

5 - 7pm EST/10 pm GMT

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

SPACE IS LIMITED 

(doors open at 4pm)

@ The Thurgood Marshall Center,

1816 12th Street NW, Washington, DC

(Masks Required)

  A link to attend virtually will be sent to registrants before the program begins.


    Presentation by Nana Kobina Nketsia VGhanaian Paramount Chief, Pan Africanist, and scholar-activist who believes in Maat, the Sankofa principles and speaking on behalf of the marginalized. He is the author of "African Culture in Governance and Development: The Ghana Paradigm".

    Nana is the chair of the Nana Kobina Nketsia IV Trust, which is building a museum whose main artifacts will depict African Liberation. He is currently Chair of Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum Governing Board; Member of Western Region House of Chiefs (Ghana); Member of National House of Chiefs (Ghana); and Director of Pan African Festival (Panafest) Foundation.

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