Commemorations cont'dd

COSTA RICA:

31 August

Afro-Costarican Cultural Day (Día de la Cultura Afro-costarricense).

BOLIVIA:

23 September

National Day of Afro-Bolivian people.

URUGUAY:

Any Saturday in September

Heritage Day (Día del Patrimonio).

ECUADOR:

First Sunday of October

Afro-Ecuadorian National Day (Día nacional del pueblo afro).

UNITED KINGDOM:

Black History Month

Started on 1 October 1987 just before the launch in July/August 1987 of the African Jubilee Year Declaration.

BRAZIL:

20 November

Black People Awareness Day (Dia de la conciencia negra).

This day marked the massacre in 1695 of African maroons and their leader Zumbi in Palmares, the northeast part of the country.

AFRICAN HERITAGE CELEBRATIONS

OTHER CELEBRATIONS

2004
INTERNATIONAL: United Nations International Year to commemorate the struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

2013-2023
INTERNATIONAL: United Nations’ International Decade for People of African Descent “A year for people of African descent”. It does not seem to have been confirmed.

Not known celebrations
GUATEMALA, MEXICO, NICARAGUA, EL SALVADOR, PORTUGUAL, SPAIN

Internet references

Juneteenth

United Nations Webcast — Special Event: Launching of the International year of peoples of African descent

The Dutch Atlantic: slavery, abolition and emancipation

Celebrating Freedom: The Abolition of Slavery on Curaçao

Monuments and Memorials of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
1st of July Slavery Remembrance Day in The Netherlands - My personal celebration
International day for the Abolition of Slavery
Emancipation Day
Trinidad and Tobago Emancipation Day
Emancipation Day for Puerto Rico
Seychelles sends message on the occasion of Africa Day 2011
Black Ethnicity Day Celebration in Panama
Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic

Et le 9 octobre devint officiellement jour férié dans l'île antillaise de Saint-Barthélemy... (French)
Heritage Day in Uruguay (Spanish)
ÁFRICA DAY CHILE: “Cada uno de los habitantes de la tierra tiene parte de África”

Africa Day Commemorated in Quito
Etnia negra de Panama (Spanish)

CANADA:

February

Black History Month, First commemoration organised in 1950. Adopted in 1995 by the House of Commons following a proposal by Ms Jean Augustine.

U.S.A.:

February

Black History Month. Started back in 1926 by African-American historian, Carter G. Woodson who conceived the idea to declare a Negro History Week, later becoming Black History Month when America celebrated its bicentenary in 1976. February was chosen because it coincides with both President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass’s birthday month.

HONDURAS:

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African Heritage Month (Mes de la herencia Africana)

SEYCHELLES:

May

Initiated in May 1999, Fete Afrique (FetAfrik in Creole) celebration of the country strong African roots has turned into a popular month-long festival. The month of May was chosen because it coincides with the anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) on May 1963.

CHILE:

25 May

Africa day

INTERNATIONAL:

25 May

Africa Day commemoration in most African Union (AU) states in remembrance of its creation.

PANAMA:

30 May

Black Ethnic Community de Panama Day (Día de la Etnia Negra de Panamá).

PERU:

4 June

Afro-Peruvian Cultural Day (Día de la Cultura Afro-peruana).