Nova Scotia is playing host to royalty from Ghana this week. Barima Kwame Nkyi XII, an Omanhene or paramount chief, is participating in the 25th Anniversary of the Africville Homecoming Reunion. He is visiting the province with a delegation that includes his tribe's Queen Mother and Prince. 

The whole entourage paid a visit today to Freedom Schooner Amistad. The Amistad Incident of 1839 was presented to them by Captain Bill Pinkney - Master Emeritus of Amistad. The story resonated with the Chief - within his region is the river where kidnapped and shackled Africans had the last opportunity to wash before being inspected, categorized and forced to board slave ships bound for North America.

The Prince performed a traditional libation on Amistad's deck of. Amistad's only current Sierra Leonean crew member, John Kamara, on behalf of AMISTAD America, thanked distinguished guests for coming.

Visiting the Freedom Schooner Amistad was a part of a rich program hosted by the Africville Genealogy Society in Halifax. Most reunion events are being held at Seaview Park on the former site of a black community razed by the city in the late 1960's as part of an urban renewal plan. To learn more about Africville check the photographic collection "Gone but Never Forgotten"

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