From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown
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Liberia Remembers Edward Wilmot Blyden, the Father of Pan Africanism
By Awareness Times
Feb 12, 2007, 23:46
It was billed as an evening of Reflection, Education and Delight and
it ended up being four hours of exactly that. Inside the auditorium of
the University of Liberia last Wednesday February 7th 2007, a galaxy
of Liberia's top personalities, students and activists all assembled
to launch the start of the 175th Anniversary Celebrations of the late
father of Panafricanism, Edward Wilmot Blyden. It started with a walk
with the Blyden Family to the University Obelisk to pour libation,
continued with lectures by various speakers and a keynote address by
President Johnson Sirleaf and ended with a spellbounding live
performance by Liberia's most famous musician, Ms. Miatta Fahnbulleh,
the singer of the hit song, Cocorioko!
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