- UWI hosts Heritage Month Lecture
Just one day after the “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” – The University of the West Indies Global Campus (UWIGC) will host its Heritage Month Lecture.
The event which kicks off tonight Tuesday, March 26 from 7pm – will take place at the lecture hall of the campus.
Historian Dr. Adrian Fraser will be the featured speaker who will deliver on the topic, ‘National Hero and Heroes’ Day – Meaning and Significance. What’s next?’
Acting Marketing Assistant, Sheron Garraway said the academic institution aims to nourish the public with quality discourse to empower their identity.
She said it dovetails with the United Nation’s “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade” and their call for healing and reparatory justice.
Garraway assured attendees that the lecture will take a deeper dive into the meaning and significance of the struggles and achievements made by National Hero Joseph Chatoyer and the Garifuna people, who are also of African descent.
The Acting Marketing Assistant, stated that The UWI Global Campus was honoured, to have the esteemed historian Dr. Fraser as the presenter. She promised an engaging and enriching discourse, as Heritage Month 2024 concludes.
Dr. Fraser is among 3 other local historians who are currently working on the revised History of this country.
