News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
Senegal's pride and joy, or a towering waste of money? Women walk past rubbish heaps and unfinished homes in a neighborhood at the base of the nearly-completed 50-meter-high (328-foot-high) bronze statue dubbed the Monument of the African...
News Source: Seattle Times
| 2 months ago
Senegal — Towering on a hilltop overlooking the Atlantic, the 160-foot-high bronze statue depicting a family rising triumphantly from a volcano is supposed to symbolize Africa's renaissance...They have left behind a capital filled with jobless...