The planned two-billion-dollar Wakanda City Project is due to start construction in August of this year.
“The African Diaspora has been able to collect a portion of the estimated funds for the city’s construction, which will begin shortly.”
The project is projected to generate approximately 3,000 direct and indirect employment, as well as prospects for tourism growth in Africa and beyond.
These were revealed in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on the sidelines of the second edition of the Pan African Lecture series organized by the Obokese University of Excellence (OUE) in Cape Coast. Mr. Olivier Kamanzi, the Director of Finance, African Diaspora Development Institute (ADDI).
The lecture, which takes place once a month, aims to promote political and economic integration among member states in order to aid in the eradication of colonialism and neocolonialism on the African continent.
He mentioned that approximately 35,000 acres of land in the Cape Coast Municipality and the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District of the Central Region have been acquired as the project’s first beneficiaries.
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It will include, among other things, a 5-star hotel, retreat centre, wellness spa, convention facilities, entertainment, and the ADDI’s continental corporate headquarters.
The city will act as a home for the African Diaspora to learn more about their community and past, which had been tossed aside to help create a better future for Africa, according to ADDI’s Director of Finance.
He urged Africans in the Diaspora to work together to render the dream a possibility and to help Africans refresh their minds.
Mr. Kamanzi thanked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo for creating the Year of Return program, which has given further chances for citizens of African origin who are stuck abroad to return home.
Rabbi Kohain Halevi, the Executive Director of the PANAFEST Foundation, spoke to history students from Aggrey Memorial Senior High School about the significance of the Year of Return, said it was time for Africans to refresh their minds and accept who they were and where they came from.
He encouraged parents and stakeholders to invest in Africa’s kids, claiming they were the continent’s future, and that no one could mislead them regarding their race or colors.
Africans, according to Rabbi Halevi, need complete freedom and emancipation in order for the continent to thrive.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
