The Pan African Heritage Museum located in Accra, Ghana is the brainchild of Mr. Kojo Yankah, who serves as the founder of the African University College Communications.
PAHM was the first museum to launch a virtual version on Thursday 5th May 2022 before a physical facility.
The Museum’s main objective is to give people of African descent a place to unlearn and relearn the true history, culture, and civilization of Africa from the early years of humankind to the present while also inspiring the younger generation.
TIME Magazine last year enlisted the more than $30 million museum among the top 100 world’s greatest places for tourists to visit and called Ghana’s capital city “a hub for creativity and culture,”.
It is the only museum in the world with a mission, to tell the truth about the African origins of humanity and the impact of great African empires on the development of civilizations in the rest of the world.
Kojo Yankah who is the visionary founder of the Pan African Heritage Museum is a Journalist, writer, cultural activist, communication specialist, and scholar.
He has worked in the public service of Ghana as a newspaper editor, public relations practitioner, Member of Parliament, and Minister of State.
He founded the African University College of Communications in 2002 and chaired the Pan African Historical Theatre Festival (PANAFEST) for over a decade. He headed the Board of the Ghana Heritage Conservation Trust for another 10 years before founding the Pan African Heritage Museum in 2010.
He is the author of 10 books, the latest being “From Jamestown to Jamestown”, which he describes as the ‘journey of the Pan African’.
He is widely traveled across all five continents and loves reading, writing, and visiting theaters and museums for history, the arts, and culture.
About the Pan African Heritage Museum, Kojo Yankah is passionate: “It is time for Africans to write and exhibit our own story, our history, and our proud heritage – it is the only way to build self-confidence in our youth, for the future.”