2026 African Heritage Month Poster
CELEBRATE AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH 2026
Sharing the History and Culture of African Nova Scotians
This year’s African Heritage Month provincial theme is “Strength in Unity: Moving Forward with Purpose, Prosperity, Power, and Progress.” The theme speaks to the power that comes when African Nova Scotians and people of African descent stand together with a shared sense of direction. It recognizes unity as an active force for change that strengthens communities, advances justice, and creates new opportunities.
At the heart of this strength are our elders, whose wisdom, stories and leadership continue to guide us. As knowledge keepers and culture bearers, they remind us of where we have come from and what it has taken to get here. In honouring our elders, we celebrate more than 400 years of African presence in Nova Scotia and the enduring legacy of the province’s 52 historic African Nova Scotian communities, while renewing our commitment to move forward together with purpose, prosperity, power and progress.
The 2026 theme also reflects the continued journey beyond the United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent, carrying forward the principles of recognition, justice, and development. Strength in Unity calls upon us to harness our collective wisdom, resilience, and creativity to build prosperity in all its forms, cultural, social economic and spiritual.
African Heritage Month Poster Pickup Locations Starting: January 28, 2026
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia
10 Cherry Brook Road
Cherry Brook, NS B2Z 1A8 902-434-6223
Cape Breton Region
Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs
850 Grand Lake Road, 2nd Floor
Sydney, NS, B1P 5T9 Phone: (902) 565-1288
Northeastern Region (Pictou, Antigonish & Guysborough Counties)
Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs
342 Stewart Street Unit 4
New Glasgow, NS B2H 2R7 902-943-4971
Northern Region
Truro African Nova Scotian Affairs
80 Walker St Truro, NS
Digby/Annapolis Region
African Nova Scotian Affairs Office
181 Acacia Valley Road
JACBA Centre of Excellence
Acaciaville, Nova Scotia, B0V 1A0
Yarmouth Region
African Nova Scotian Affairs
10 Starrs Road Floor 1 Provincial Building
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia B5A 2T1
Halifax Library
All branches
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