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Monday’s Monument: Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial, Ndola, Zambia

Monday’s Monument: Dag Hammarskjöld Crash Site Memorial, Ndola, Zambia

by Susan | Dec 21, 2020 | Monuments

Just after midnight on September18th, 1961 a plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and fifteen others crashed, killing all aboard, outside of Ndola, in what was then Rhodesia. The small plane was on the way to the Congo Republic to negotiate a...
Monday’s Monument: Freedom Charter Monument, Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Freedom Charter Monument, Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa

by Susan | Feb 3, 2020 | Monuments

On 26 June 1955, more than 3,000 representatives of resistance organizations made their way through police cordons to gather on a dusty square in Kliptown, 40 kilometers south of Johannesburg. This “Congress of the People” met to draw up the Freedom Charter, an...
Monday’s Monument: Slave Market Memorial, Stone Town, Tanzania

Monday’s Monument: Slave Market Memorial, Stone Town, Tanzania

by Susan | Aug 26, 2019 | Monuments

The Slave Memorial in Zanzibar, Tanzania, recalls how slaves were once held in underground chambers until sold in the nearby slave market. Swedish sculptor Clara Sönäs produced the work in 1998. The chains are real historical artifacts. The slave trade shifted to East...
Monday’s Monument: Memorial to the Six Million, Johannesburg, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Memorial to the Six Million, Johannesburg, South Africa

by Susan | Apr 29, 2019 | Monuments

Memorial to the Six Million in Johannesburg’s Westpark Cemetery pays tribute to the Jewish men, women and children who lost their lives during the Second World War. The monument depicts six bronze fists, each five feet high, bursting out of the ground as a protest...
Monday’s Monument: Reunification Monument, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Monday’s Monument: Reunification Monument, Yaoundé, Cameroon

by Susan | Mar 18, 2019 | Monuments

After WW I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Cameroon, a German protectorate, was divided into two regions and put under French and British rule. In January 1960, French Cameroon became independent, British Cameroon, 10 months later. In 1972 the two...
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