Monday, 23rd September 2024, has been declared a public holiday. This is to celebrate the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. The day has become known as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial fell on Saturday, 21st September 2024. Since the date fell on a Saturday, the government has declared Monday a holiday.
This was contained in a press release dated September 19, 2024 and signed by HENRY QUARTEY (MP), the MINISTER FOR THE INTERIOR
Full Press release: Monday 23rd September Declared A Public Holiday
The general public is hereby informed that Saturday, 21st September, 2024, marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, which is a Statutory Public Holiday.
However, in view of the fact that 21st September, 2024 falls on a Saturday, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, has by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, (Act 601) declared Monday, 23rd September, 2024 as an additional Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country.
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Signed
HENRY QUARTEY (MP)
MINISTER FOR THE INTERIOR
Issued in Accra this Thursday, September 19, 2024
Here are five reasons why 21st September is a public holiday in Ghana:
- Kwame Nkrumah’s Birthday: The day marks the birthday of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. He was Ghana’s ifrst president who become one of Africa’s most resepcted and celebrated people on the continent.
- Founder’s Day: It is celebrated as Founder’s Day to honor only Dr Kwame Nkrumah and his role as the founding father of modern Ghana.
- Reemberance of National Independence and Nkrumah’s Struggles Nkrumah led Ghana to become the first African country to gain independence from colonial rule, making this day significant one in the history of Ghana.
- Recognition of Pan-Africanism: Nkrumah was a leading figure in the Pan-African movement, promoting unity among African countries and fighting for the liberation of other African nations.
- National Reflection: The holiday serves as a day for Ghanaians to reflect on the values of patriotism, self-reliance, and progress that Nkrumah championed.
Ghanaians love Nkrumah and the entire Africa appreciates Nkrumah for his efforts.
10 WISE SAYINGOR QUOTES OF NKRUMAH
- Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.
- It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are weak; united, Africa could become one of the greatest forces for good in the world.
- Countrymen, the task ahead is great indeed, and heavy is the responsibility; and yet it is a noble and glorious challenge – a challenge which calls for the courage to dream, the courage to believe, the courage to dare, the courage to do, the courage to envision, the courage to fight, the courage to work, the courage to achieve – to achieve the highest excellencies and the fullest greatness of man. Dare we ask for more in life?
- Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.
- As far as I am concerned, I am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which I have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after I am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people.
- The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
- We face neither East nor West: we face forward.
- Revolutions are brought by men, men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
- What other countries have taken three hundred years or more to achieve, a once dependent territory must try to accomplish in a generation if it is to survive. Unless it is, as it were jet propelled it will lag behind and thus risk everything for which it has fought.
- The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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