On the 25th of May 2022, the Emancipation Support Committee of Trinidad and Tobago (ESCTT) will launch the 2022 Pan African Festival Trinidad Tobago (PAFTTCE).
In an official statement released yesterday, ESCTT said it has planned a unique Festival for 2022, which will utilize the experiences of the last two years of online activities.
“Come Home for Emancipation campaign. It will bring together the collaboration of our regional and international networks of artists, cultural activists and scholars, nurtured over the last 30 years, to construct an event which will satisfy the hunger for the festival that many have expressed.
If all health indicators continue improving, we expect a solid contingent of the Trinidad and Tobago and Caribbean Diaspora Community to take up our invitation to Come Home for Emancipation.
It is celebratory and positively inspiring. It is also sacred. It is a tribute to African ancestors who built mankind’s earliest major civilizations in the Valley of the Nile, leaving behind the Great Pyramid among other structures that still invoke wonder. It is a tribute to those who produced the first written scripts, which included concepts of deity. It is a tribute to ancestors who spread their knowledge and unique building techniques to South and Central America in times before recorded history. It is a tribute to ancestors whose civilizations eventually fell to conquerors from societies that were far less developed but ruthless in their pursuits of wealth and power,” read a statement from the ESCT.
Senator Randall Mitchell, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, is expected to formally launch the PAFTTCE with the guest speaker being Dr. Natalia Kanem, the United Nations Under Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Population Fund.
