{"id":112056,"date":"2015-04-28T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=112056"},"modified":"2015-04-28T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:55:47","slug":"ghana-showcases-culture-at-seychelles-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=112056","title":{"rendered":"Ghana showcases culture at Seychelles carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana last weekend joined 28 other countries from around the world to participate in this year\u2019s Carnival International de Victoria in Seychelles.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s carnival marks the fifth edition and was a place of cultural exchange where countries proudly showcased their rich culture. It was the biggest in the history of the carnival and brought more than 20,000 people to Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Tourism Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare in a statement said Ghana\u2019s display of its rich culture, costume, and music &amp; dance attracted applause from the teaming crowd and dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, Ghana\u2019s tourism and creative arts industry was highly represented by creative arts industry players, tourism practitioners, traditional rulers among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister, who led a high powered delegation including Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene to Seychelles, said Ghana was in Seychelles to showcase its rich culture to the world and also share ideas with Seychellois that would help develop cultural tourism in both countries and improve the lives of its people.<\/p>\n<p>She said the visit was for a number of reasons and key amongst that was the historic visit of Asantehene to the Islands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/E.O.-Agyare1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112053\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/E.O.-Agyare1.jpg\" alt=\"E.O. Agyare1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/E.O.-Agyare1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/E.O.-Agyare1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She threw an invitation to the world to also experience Ghana\u2019s version of the Carnival in December this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, Tourism Minister Mrs Ofosu-Adajre accompanied the Asantehene to pay a courtesy call on President of Seychelles, James Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s delegation included government officials, traditional rulers, tourism practitioners, and members of the hospitality and creative arts industry.<br \/>\nSource: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana last weekend joined 28 other countries from around the world to participate in this year\u2019s Carnival International de Victoria in Seychelles. This year\u2019s carnival marks the fifth edition and was a place of cultural exchange where countries proudly showcased their rich culture. It was the biggest in the history of the carnival and brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":112054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,33],"class_list":["post-112056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}