African Heritage Month 2025 Program Portal - Not Linked
Events
All Events: Celebrating African Heritage
2025 Events
Explore all events in honour of African Heritage Month 2025, throughout February and beyond.
Teen Take-Homes: African Hand Fans
Feb 1st - Feb 8th | All day
Hand fans originated in Egypt at least 4000 years ago and remain popular in many African countries. Craft your own with this take-home kit.
Black Beauty Culture Hair Innovator Series, part of a series
Feb 1st | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Would you like to become a Black Beauty Culture Hair Innovator? Register now to take part in this series and gain the skills required.
5 Poets Breaking into Song (#16)
Feb 8th | 2:00pm - 4:00pm
George Elliott Clarke, D.D. Jackson & Halifax Public Libraries Present: 5 Poets Breaking into Song (#16) Saltwater Spirituals & Uppity Blues
All Events: Celebrating African Heritage
2025 Events
Explore all events in honour of African Heritage Month 2025, throughout February and beyond.
Teen Take-Homes: African Hand Fans
Feb 1st - Feb 8th | All day
Hand fans originated in Egypt at least 4000 years ago and remain popular in many African countries. Craft your own with this take-home kit.
Black Beauty Culture Hair Innovator Series, part of a series
Feb 1st | 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Would you like to become a Black Beauty Culture Hair Innovator? Register now to take part in this series and gain the skills required.
5 Poets Breaking into Song (#16)
Feb 8th | 2:00pm - 4:00pm
George Elliott Clarke, D.D. Jackson & Halifax Public Libraries Present: 5 Poets Breaking into Song (#16) Saltwater Spirituals & Uppity Blues
Reading & Resources
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Children's Books
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and learn about nonviolent social activism with these children's books about his life and legacy.
African Heritage: Famous Canadians
Learn about notable Canadians of African descent and their remarkable contributions.
Read to Me's Representation Matters Booklist
An Africentric Booklist for Babies, Toddlers & Preschoolers: These titles were carefully selected by the Read to Me Program in partnership.
African Heritage: Poetry Collections for Teens
Discover powerful poetry collections by poets of African descent.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Children's Books
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and learn about nonviolent social activism with these children's books about his life and legacy.
African Heritage: Famous Canadians
Learn about notable Canadians of African descent and their remarkable contributions.
Read to Me's Representation Matters Booklist
An Africentric Booklist for Babies, Toddlers & Preschoolers: These titles were carefully selected by the Read to Me Program in partnership.
African Heritage: Poetry Collections for Teens
Discover powerful poetry collections by poets of African descent.
News & Stories
Celebrating Black Brilliance: African Heritage Month 2025
TD Presents African Heritage Month 2025 at Halifax Public Libraries kicks off with its annual Opening Night Celebration on January 22.
In The Sunroom: Faces of the Diaspora
On display from January 12 to February 22, 2025 in The Sunroom at Central Library, Faces of the Diaspora by Daramfon Morgan.
Milestone Moments (2023-24)
From JUNOs to climate summits, 40 years of African Heritage Month, and housing support initiatives, 2023-24 was a milestone year. Read more.
Bookmark 40 Years of African Heritage Month at the Library
Celebrate African heritage in Nova Scotia with our exclusive series of bookmarks highlighting African Nova Scotian icons.
Celebrating Black Brilliance: African Heritage Month 2025
TD Presents African Heritage Month 2025 at Halifax Public Libraries kicks off with its annual Opening Night Celebration on January 22.
In The Sunroom: Faces of the Diaspora
On display from January 12 to February 22, 2025 in The Sunroom at Central Library, Faces of the Diaspora by Daramfon Morgan.
Milestone Moments (2023-24)
From JUNOs to climate summits, 40 years of African Heritage Month, and housing support initiatives, 2023-24 was a milestone year. Read more.
Bookmark 40 Years of African Heritage Month at the Library
Celebrate African heritage in Nova Scotia with our exclusive series of bookmarks highlighting African Nova Scotian icons.
Galleries & Videos
Video (2024): Appointed to the Order with Craig Smith
Join us as we acknowledge the accomplished Black Atlantic Canadians who have received provincial and national recognition for....[continued]
Video: (2024) Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon
Black Activist, Black Scientist, Black Icon, by Dr. Howard D. McCurdy with George Elliott Clarke.
Gallery: (2024) Roots & Rhythm: Connecting the Past...
Photo collection from 2024 Roots & Rhythm: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future event.
Video: (2024) George Elliott Clarke Presents 5 Poets...
A performance featuring: Jazz pianist and composer: D.D. Jackson,Vocalist: Linda Carvery, Poets: Aquakultre, Delvina Bernard...[continued]
Gallery: (2024) George Elliott Clarke Presents 5 Poets...
Photo collection from 2024 event, George Elliott Clarke Presents: 5 Poets Breaking Into Song(#11): Saltwater Spirituals & Uppity Blues.
Gallery: (2024) African Heritage Month Opening Night
Photo collection from 2024 African Heritage Month Opening Night at Halifax Public Libraries.
Video: (2024) African Heritage Month Opening Night
Watch Now: Experience African Heritage Month Opening Night, recorded at Halifax Central Library, January 25, 2024.
Video: (2023) 5 Poets Breaking into Song
George Elliott Clarke, with Afua Cooper, Amatoritsero Ede, Sylvia Hamilton, El Jones, and Monica Mutale perform their poems alongside music.
Gallery: (2023) African Heritage Month Opening Night
We had a fantastic time at the 2023 African Heritage Opening Night Ceremony. See moments from this beautiful event for yourself.
Video: (2023) African Heritage Month Opening Night
Recorded live, Thursday, January 26 2023 at Halifax North Memorial Public Library.
Video: (2023) A Salute To Gloria Baylis - A Poem
By George Elliott Clarke. Performed and recorded at the Gloria Baylis: Canadian Freedom Fighter, Humanitarian & Phenomenal...[continued]
Watch Now: Learn to Make Fufu
Millions of people eat fufu every day in West and Central Africa. Mary Nkrumah of Mary's African Cuisine demonstrates how to make it.
Watch Now: Learn to Make Okra Stew
Mary Nkrumah of Mary's African Cuisine shows how to cook okra properly as a stew, served with corn dough (akpele/banku).
Watch Now: Learn to Make African Yam & Cocoyam Leaf Stew
Learn how to make boiled yam and plantain with nutritious cocoyam leaf stew (kontomere) with Mary Nkrumah, Mary's African Cuisine.
Video: (2022) Through Our Eyes - Reimagining Human Rights
Watch Now: This panel discussion focused on centring the realities of anti-Black racism on historical and contemporary human rights.
Video: (2022) #1792 Project - 15 Ships to Sierra Leone
A student-led commemoration of Freetown's founding; when courageous Black Loyalists began the largest single exodus back to Africa.
