The president of Ghana, Black history scholar Henry Louis Gates and others came together in New York Monday to sign documents formally announcing construction of a museum to honor late scholar W.E.B. DuBois.
Du Bois, a founder of the NAACP and the first Black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, spent the last years of his life in Accra, the capital of Ghana and the site of the museum. Du Bois is buried in the city.
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo led the meeting in New York to announce The Du Bois Museum Complex, which will allow visitors to learn about the late historian and scholar and will inspire solidarity among Black people in the diaspora.
Sir David Adjaye, Ghanaian architect and designer of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., will design the Du Bois complex. Monday’s event included the signing of an agreement between the government of Ghana and the W.E.B. Du Bois Museum Foundation, an organization based in New York.
