Falling in the autumn, Thanksgiving has much in common with harvest holidays in other nations and cultures, such as Vietnam's Trung Thu celebration and Homowo, the annual yam festival in Ghana.
Five African countries have been selected to kick off the initiative on the continent, Rwanda Ghana Malawi Senegal and Uganda, how were they selected and what role will country play in the implementation of the program?
In this programme, we'll be doing just that – discovering the food culture of Ghana in west Africa, and hearing about one woman's quest to preserve her country's traditional recipes.
And a statue of the independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been removed from the campus of the University of Ghana after complaints he made racist comments against black Africans.