Panafest and Emancipation Day Festival
Panafest, an abbreviation for the Pan African Historical Theater Festival, is celebrated biennially between July and August in the historic town of Cape Coast, Ghana. A significant highlight of this festival is Emancipation Day, observed on August 1. On this day in 1834, slavery and the slave trade were formally abolished in most of the British Empire. Since its inception in 1992, Panafest aims to promote unity, pan-Africanism, and the development of the African continent. It has become a popular inclusion in itineraries, particularly for members of the black diaspora traveling to Ghana during the summer.
