THE KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

PRESENTS

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE SEMINAR (JULY 1 - 6, 2007)

THEME: "SALUTING OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH – CHARTING NEW FRONTIER OF KNOWLEDGE AND LEADERSHIP FOR AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM"

LOCATION: THE GREAT HALL, The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.

THE TOUR (JULY 7 - 14, 2007)

ACTIVITY: Tour of historical, cultural and project sites: ie: Nkrumah's birth place & mausoleum, Slave Dungeons, Forts, Akosombo, Tema, etc.

MISSION : To provide an intellectual forum to debate Nkrumah's socio-political philosophy and action that changed the political landscape of Africa , as his geo-political paradigm altered the balance of power in global diplomacy.

PURPOSE: To Salute Ghana's first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for his outstanding leadership qualities and role in the struggle for independence of Ghana/Africa and Global Peace; in commemoration of Ghana's Golden Jubilee of Nationhood.

EXPECTATION :

•  Participants will journey through provocative intellectual tourism by visiting Nkrumah's political sphere of reality. Authors, scholars and persons with prior and personal contact with Nkrumah will lead the presentations.

•  Participants will witness a lifetime experience of exotic culture and historical destinations in Ghana . Participants will observe existing colonial edifices, from where millions of innocent lives were once packaged in dungeons and shipped across the Atlantic for enslavement.

•  Participants will share the elegance of African Royalty by interacting with some of Ghana 's Queens and Kings.