Black Panther star, Chadwick Boseman, has been honoured by the Ghana Tourism Authority, together with the Ministry of Tourism Arts and Culture and the Diaspora community in Ghana.
The Ghanaian authorities held a minute silence for fallen heroes at the unveiling of the seven pillars of the Beyond the Return in Accra Wednesday, September 9, 2020.
During the event the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Akwasi Agyeman, asked guests to pay some respect to Chadwick Boseman and other Black heroes.
“May I respectfully request that we all rise for a minute silence…for our ancestors who went through the tortures journey of slavery, two, for our brothers and sisters who have fallen in recent times especially our brother Chadwick of Black Panther fame and yesterday in Cape Coast, Elolo Gabin for those of who have been in emancipation and Panafest, you know Elolo is no more”, he said.
Chadwick Boseman, star of the ground-breaking superhero movie “Black Panther” died after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.
Boseman, 43, never publicly discussed his condition and continued to work on major Hollywood films during and between “countless” operations and chemotherapy, his family said in a statement.
“It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in ‘Black Panther,’” a statement posted on his Twitter account reads.
“A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all,” the statement added.
