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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...
Monday’s Monument: Gateway of No Return, near Ouidah, Benin

Monday’s Monument: Gateway of No Return, near Ouidah, Benin

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...
Monday’s Monument:  Gugulethu Seven Monument, Gugulethu, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Gugulethu Seven Monument, Gugulethu, South Africa

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...
Monday’s Monument: Perceiving Freedom, Cape Town, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Perceiving Freedom, Cape Town, South Africa

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;...
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