Zimbabwe recently provided Namibia with a one-acre parcel of land in Liberation City, Harare’s Pan-African Memorial Park, and the Museum of African Liberation Project for the construction of an outdoor monument honoring Namibia’s liberation from South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Recently at the State House, President Hage Geingob received this message from Ambassador Simbarashe Mumbengegwi. The latter is a special representative of Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe.
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The Museum of African Liberation on the other hand is a monument that was constructed in Zimbabwe earlier this year. It is part of efforts to document conflicts fought on the continent in the quest for self-determination. It is dedicated to all fallen veterans of the liberation wars on the continent.
Geingob was told by Mumbengegwi that the memorial park would have a number of monuments.
What the Pan-African Memorial Park will feature
In addition to a heritage village in the memorial park, the complex will include a world-class shopping mall, an animal park, and an amusement park, totaling 20 hectares each.
A hectare of land has already been donated to those in the diaspora as part of the Pan-African Memorial Park’s collaboration with the Mohamed Ali Foundation. This is to honor the link between the continent and those who have left it, he continued.
Geingob commended the project. He said that it was good that Africans were expressing their own stories. The museum will cover more than 100 hectares of land, costing over $20 million. The project will be financed by various African countries.
The construction of the museum has begun, and it is said that the work will take two years to complete. It will be funded by various African countries, and the African Union is also supporting it.
The main goal is to illustrate how African nations came to be what they are today—liberated countries. Numerous amenities, including a five-star hotel, amusement park, zoo, exhibition park for the Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF), and shopping mall, are planned to support the museum.
