by Susan | Sep 10, 2018 | Monuments
A massive, arched gateway, 50 feet high, stands alone on the edge a beach in West Africa, a monument to the hundreds of thousands of Africans who were forced into slave boats on this beach, never to return. Etched across the top of the arch are two long lines of...
by Susan | Nov 6, 2017 | Monuments
This monument recalls the brutal murder of seven young black activists by South African security forces in 1986. The young men were on their way to what they believed to be a job interview in a minivan driven by an undercover security officer, when they stopped at a...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2017 | Monuments
In 2014 a giant pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers appeared on Cape Town’s Sea Point Promenade, pointed towards Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 of his 27 years as a prisoner. The artist, Michael Elion, pitched it as a public art installation;...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | Monuments
Or, as they say in Kiswahili, Amani, Upendo And Umoja. This fountain is in the 76-acre Uhuhru (Freedom) Park in central Nairobi, which was established by Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya. It was here that a crowd of more than 40,000 gathered to watch the...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2016 | Monuments
The events of the night of 7 June 1893 changed the course of Mahatma Gandhi’s life. The young Indian lawyer had come to South Africa for work. He was traveling from Durban to Johannesburg and had a first class ticket for the train. He was told to leave the...
