The Centre houses a research library and gallery of manuscripts, as well as the grave of this famous African-American scholar and his wife.
The Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan-Africa Culture, Accra - Cantonments, House, No. 22 First Circular Road
The Du Bois, Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture
dedicated to the life of a man who spent greater part of his life in the struggle for the emancipation of the black man through Pan Africanism.
The Du Bois, Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture declared a National Monument by the Government of Ghana where the remains of the man, Du Bois and the ashes of his wife, Shirley, rest in a peace – enshrined, that their memory will live among men and women in this generation and beyond.
But, more significant too, House No. 22 First Circular Road, Cantonment, was the dwelling of Dr. Du Bois during the epoch-making last days of his life, and it was here, on August 27, 1963, that he breathed his last.
A special plaque mounted on a concrete contrivance welcomes the visitor with two inscriptions from the Du Bois poem “Children of the Moon.
I am dead
Yet Somehow, Somewhere,
In Time’s weird contraction,
May tell of that dread deed, wherewith
I brought to children of the Moon
Freedom and vast salvation.
I rose upon the mountain of the moon
I feel the blazing glory of the sun,
I heard the song of children crying
“Free”
I saw the face of Freedom
And I died
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