Kumasi, July 24, GNA -- A five-member delegation from the United States Virgin Islands on Sunday visited the Kumasi Cultural Centre to learn more about the Ghanaian culture.

The delegation led by Mr Marion Jackson learnt at first hand Ashanti history, as well as the pottery and weaving industries. They also joined other people in Kumasi for cultural performances of the various ethnic groups.

Mr Samuel Adjei, Director of the Kumasi Cultural Centre, in a speech, said it was important for a person to know his or her true identity and to maintain it.

=93We at the Cultural Centre would carry on with the crusade to preserve the God-given heritage of the African,=94 he said. Mr Jackson expressed the group's gratitude to the Management of the Centre for the knowledge they shared with them.

He announced a cross-culture programme between the youth in Ghana and those in the Virgin Islands to further sustain the shared heritage. The group is in Ghana to participate in this year's Emancipation Day celebration, which is on the theme: 93Our Heritage Our Strength=94. A rehearsal of the Healing Concert, a reconciliation ceremony that would climax the 93Joseph Project=94 to be launched next year, would be

performed for the group on July 29. The Joseph Project, based on the biblical story of Joseph, who was sold into slavery and later returned to his people as a hero, aims at facilitating the return of Africans in the Diaspora to their homeland through Ghana, described as the gateway to Africa. 24 July 06