The Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi will soon take delivery of a multi-million dollar medical items and equipment from Medshare, a non-profit US donor organisation. The organization has already made available four 40 - foot containers of assorted medical supplies ready for shipment to the hospital. According to the Vice - President Ms Nell Diano, co-operate and internatinal relations of Medshare, the gesture is in response to talks and request for assistance by the Kumasi Mayor during his recent visit in Atlanta Georgia, US. She said Mr. Samuel Sarpong, the Kumasi Mayor's presence in the US was timely as he kept on impressing in the minds of US dignitaries in official meetings with him the need for them to come to Ghana and invest in the health and the agricultural sectors. Ms Diano further gave the assurance that the charity organization would ensure regular relief medical assistance from time to time to the hospital and other health clinics within his jurisdiction in the city of kumasi, adding that the city of Accra, Eastern region and Cape Coast Municipality have all in the past benefited from the generosity of the organization . It will be recalled that that Mr. Samuel Sarpong was on an official trip to Atlanta Georgia at the head of a delegation to participate in the just - ended National Black and Arts festival (NBAF) in the US. Whilst in the US, he held several meetings with the Ghanaian communities to brief them about the impending Kumasi International Black and Arts Cultural festival (KIBAC ) to be hosted in November 2011 in kumasi. Several protocol receptions initiated by Nii Kwao Bady, the convener of the NBAF were held in the honour of the Kumasi Mayor NBAF POSITIVE IMPACT ON GHANA This year's celebration of the National Black and Arts Festivals (NBAF), which was instituted since 1988 in Atlanta, USA, has ended in the Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta - Georgia. Over 10,000 people, largely of Africa descent, from around the globe were brought together to partake of the historic event. The week long festival featured among other things a comprehensive exhibition of art and crafts, music, lectures and entertainment by participant black communities from Brazil, Ghana, Senegal and Africans in the Diaspora including white sympathisers from Europe and Asia. Various stances mounted by artists and vendors to showcase the rich Africa heritage and the unique display of artefacts provided the forum for both black and white celebrants to promote and share the cultural legacy of people of African extract. In a goodwill message, on behalf of the government of Ghana, Hon. Mr. Samuel Sarpong, the Mayor of Kumasi stressed the need for inter-ethnic co-operation and cultural consciousness among Africans all over the world as basis for the dream of African's oneness to come to fruition. “We can only assert our dignity as a distinctive class of people from a common stock through a resolute and a firm adherence to our cultural values and belief systems which have always kept pace with the ever-changing global technological advancement,'' he said. Humanity, he noted, whether black or white is of one origin and ancestry and it therefore behoves on Africans to assume their proper roles in the mainstream of global affairs for the due recognition and status to be accorded them in the comity of nations. The mayor expressed concern over the rate at which the influx of non - African cultures have been allowed to adulterate that of the black, adding if the trend should continue Africans stand the risk of predisposing themselves to cultural identity crisis. He pointed out that it is time black communities subject their cultural resources to good management practices to earn the admiration of the world in terms of economic values and social respect. Mr. Sarpong used the occasion to announce that Kumasi would replicate the festival in November 2011 next year which would be the first of its kinds in Africa to be hosted as the kumasi International Black Arts and cultural festival ( KIBAC ). The festival shot to its climax with spectacular traditional treats by the various cultural troupes who took turns to thrill their teeming celebrants to a medley of folklore songs and artistic performances especially the " kete and adowa'' dance in tune with the " atumpan " drumming. The mayor was accompanied on his visit by the Regional Director of Centre for National Culture, Kumasi, Mr. S. F. Adjei, the Regional Director of Tourist Board Kumasi, Mr. Samson Ekow and the News Director of Fox F.M. Kumasi, Mr.George Arthur.