The Gorée Memorial is a memorial to the slave trade, but also to the “future”, which will be used to “know how to forgive” and unite. The idea for this project goes back more than thirty years but it is finally starting to be realized. The final version was presented to Senegalese President Macky Sall on August 18 during a meeting with the structures involved.
as reported from Dakar, Thea Ollivier
A huge building on the western corniche of Dakar, consisting of a 120-meter-high canoe facing the Atlantic, this is the project that the poet and author Amadou Lamine Sall, the foundation’s general secretary, is working on. In the Gorée -Almadie Memorial.
“There will be a slavery museum, there will be a special library about the work of slavery, there will be versatile rooms for arts, performances or crafts,” he explains. When the project is inaugurated, we will have for the first two or three years almost 700 to 800,000 people per year who will visit it. “
Work will begin between the end of December and February 2022, which is the challenge for APIX, the agency responsible for major government work, in collaboration with the foundation of the memorial.
“We worked a lot with the architect to bring about all the procedures and studies we needed,” explains Amadou Lamine Sall. Geothermal studies were carried out, there were also environmental studies that were crucial to build this project. ”
The inauguration of President Macky Sall can be done in the summer of 2023.
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