Cultural heritage celebration
Biennial festival celebrating African heritage and promoting cultural tourism, inspired by Alex Haley's novel "Roots"
Regional
Roots Homecoming Festival
Cultural heritage celebration
On this day in African history
- 1820 US Congress law equates slave trading with piracy punishable by death. · United States
- 1860 Slave ship Clotilda arrives at port of Whydah on West African coast. · Benin
- 1902 Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty signed regarding Nile waters and Sudan-Eritrea borders. · Ethiopia
- 1905 Maraka noble kills slave in Banamba starting symbolic slave exodus. · Mali
- 1916 African American farmhand Jesse Washington is lynched in Waco Texas. · United States
- 1939 ANC deputation meets Minister of Native Affairs to protest land restrictions. · South Africa