Cuba Embassy screens ‘Inocencia’ to UG students

 The Cuba Embassy in Gha­na last Friday, screened a movie titled ‘Inocencia’ (Innocence) for students and lecturers from the University of Ghana, Legon.

The event was part of ac­tivities to mark the Cuba Cul­ture Day celebrations which was attended by students and lecturers from the Spanish, French and Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy.

Other activities scheduled for the celebrations include a gathering of Cubans living in Ghana, premiering of mov­ies on Pan African TV among others.

Mrs Anette Chao Garcia, the Cuban Ambassador to Gha­na, said the movie was based on a true-life story about eight students of medicine assassi­nated based on disinformation about them in Havana, Cuba in 1871.

The Ambassador said among other things, that the movie was to teach the students about honesty and truthfulness, no matter the circumstances.

Ms Benedicta Lomotey, the Director, Centre for Latin American Studies, UG, said the school had collaborated with the embassy on several programmess and therefore deemed it important to partic­ipate in such a historic event.

Ms Lomotey said Ghana and Cuba had similar historical cul­tural antecedents especially in slave trade and that motivated them to participate in the programme to learn more.

“This goes a long way to strengthen the cordial coop­eration and diplomacy be­tween the two countries. It also stands to strengthen the diplomacy between Ghana and Cuba.”

Yaa Kume Kyereme, a stu­dent and Nana Serwah Bedia­ko, a National Service Person, shared their experiences with The Spectator after the event.

“We must speak out be­cause social justice is a must for all in any given society,” they stressed.

The embassy conducted a quiz to test the knowledge of students in music, sports, politics, painting, history, geography, among others with prizes given to winners.

 By Victor A. Buxton