Accra, Oct. 21, GNA – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has pledged its support for this year’s Grow, Unite, Build, Africa (GUBA) 2021 awards.
The awards to be held in Accra on November 8, 2021, aimed to celebrate the centenary of the passage of the gallant Nana Yaa Asantewaa.
A solidarity letter to GUBA from UNESCO, reads, “UNESCO will collaborate with your institution (GUBA) towards the event. UNESCO’s work in the area of Culture and Gender finds convergence in the objectives of GUBA for the awards.”
The letter stated that apart from technical support, UNESCO will also collaborate with GUBA to explore further cooperation in future activities.
Madam Dentaa Amoateng MBE GUBA Enterprise’s President and CEO lauded the collaboration and said the camaraderie from UNESCO would serve as a major springboard for the success of the awards this year.
“For us at GUBA, such support and collaborations from a powerful organization as UNESCO is a great motivation for us not to fail”, Madam Amoateng MBE said.
2021 marks exactly 100 years of the death of Nana Asantewaa, the last African woman to lead a major war against colonial powers in 1900, where she played the role of the Commander-in-Chief of the powerful Asante Empire.
These events would observe an important moment in African history, one that is unique to the relations between Ghana and the Republic of Seychelles and is expected to host several high-profile personalities from the diaspora.
While celebrating Yaa Asantewaa, the awards would also recognize the contribution of Black women in the diaspora and Africa.
The 2021 GUBA Awards will also raise awareness on maternal mortality and call for measures to ensure safe child delivery across the continent.
She said GUBA Enterprise believed that every child, born and unborn, had a great potential and must be given the opportunity to fulfill this potential.
The occasion would also highlight 2021 being the AU Year of Arts, Culture, and Heritage and provide information on the General History of Africa, a UNESCO supported project “unparalleled in its ambition to cover the history of the entire African continent, since the appearance of human beings to contemporary challenges faced by Africans and their Diasporas in the world.”
Source: Ghana News Agency
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