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 Genealogy
Feb 6th | 6:30pm - 7:30pm
This presentation explores the fascinating journey involved in tracing an African Nova Scotian lineage. Register now!
Culture Shock: Junkanoo - Celebrating African Heritage
Feb 8th | 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Experience the vibrant traditions of Junkanoo, a Bahamian festival rooted in African ancestry and Caribbean culture.
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 Genealogy
Feb 6th | 6:30pm - 7:30pm
This presentation explores the fascinating journey involved in tracing an African Nova Scotian lineage. Register now!
Culture Shock: Junkanoo - Celebrating African Heritage
Feb 8th | 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Experience the vibrant traditions of Junkanoo, a Bahamian festival rooted in African ancestry and Caribbean culture.
Reading & Resources
African Heritage: Famous Canadians
Learn about notable Canadians of African descent and their remarkable contributions.
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.
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.
African Heritage: Famous Canadians
Learn about notable Canadians of African descent and their remarkable contributions.
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.
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
Our AHM 2025 T-Shirt: Celebrating Black Brilliance
Discover Halifax Public Libraries’ AHM 2025 t-shirt design, celebrating Black brilliance, resilience, and legacy every day of the year.
Celebrating Black Brilliance: African Heritage Month 2025
TD Presents African Heritage Month 2025 at Halifax Public Libraries kicked 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.
Our AHM 2025 T-Shirt: Celebrating Black Brilliance
Discover Halifax Public Libraries’ AHM 2025 t-shirt design, celebrating Black brilliance, resilience, and legacy every day of the year.
Celebrating Black Brilliance: African Heritage Month 2025
TD Presents African Heritage Month 2025 at Halifax Public Libraries kicked 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.
Galleries & Videos
Video: (2025) African Heritage Month Opening Night Ceremony
Watch the recording of African Heritage Month at Halifax Public Libraries Opening Night, streamed from Central Library January 22, 2025.
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.