Arikana headlines Dinner with Royalty in Ghana

On a night of glitz and glamour, the more the crowd celebrated Dr. Chihombori Quao, the more she tried to share the spotlight with others.

The elegant décor and the exquisite African attire that over 95% of the attendees wore made for the Royal celebration that the night was billed to be. The lighting seemed to reflect off the glitz and pageantry of the ‘Royals” in attendance.

You have not seen before, or perhaps will not see again, a celebration of Africa’s oneness like this. There were easily over one hundred nationals of Africans present.

Colombia was present as were Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, north, south, east and west of the United States, Cameroon, Zambia, and so on.

But the language was “African.”

The language spoken might have been English, but the French, Latin, and speakers of all other languages communicated with the pride in their eyes, the pep in their step, and the bonding sentiment that filled the giant, exquisite hall in Accra’s plush East Legon suburb.

“Dr. Arikana has really started something magnificent, and there ain’t no stopping us now,” remarked an immaculately-clad young lady from The Netherlands who relocated there from the United States and is now looking to relocate to Ghana.

And the Kings and Queens in the house – one (The Adangbe King) showed up in a western suit purposefully to allow the other (The Asebu King who has donated 5,000 acres of land for the building of the Wakanda One City of Return) to enter the hall with the celebratory aura laden with the drumming and dancing befitting a royal.

And what Her Excellency Joyce Banda, former president of Malawi who assumed power in April of 2012 with no electricity and running water but restored them in under 100 days.

But the night belonged to dr. Arikana Chihomori Quao.

The unanimous love for the Queen of Africa, as Arikana is constantly called, occupied such space in the hall that there wasn’t mush left to share – try as she did.

Twice Arikana was introduced to deliver her vintage passionate and galvanizing speech, and twice she only dropped one or two though-provoking statements but only to reintroduce others to speak.

Even as the cameras followed her to get a statement or two during the waning moments of the evening, Arikana would always politely ask that other key participants of ADDI rather be interviewed.

Such is the modesty hidden beneath the Queen of Africa whose unrelenting call-out of injustices be they by the super-powers or by fellow Africans who turn a wanton blind eye to the flight of Africa.

The leader that she is, Dr. Chihombori Quao did not pull one of those speak-and-disappear appearances. She stayed and availed herself to talk with just about every attendee who wanted a chat. As it got close to midnight she was still interacting with folks even as the crowd started thinning out.

It was one of those nights that you wished would never come to an end, but it had to. The ADDI delegation travels to Cape Coast to begin the work of building Wakanda One City of Return.

DNT News, East Legon, Accra.

 

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