Senegal: work on the Gorée memorial should start no later than February 2022
General view of the city of Dakar where the Gorée memorial will be built (illustrative image). Photo: Initsogan;
source: Wikipedia
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The Gorée memorial is a place of memory of the slave trade, but also “
of the future
”, which will be used to “
know how to forgive
” and to be reconciled.
The idea for this project dates back more than thirty years, but it is finally starting to materialize.
The final version was presented to Senegalese President Macky Sall on August 18 during a meeting with the structures involved.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Théa Ollivier
A huge building on the western corniche of Dakar, composed of a vertical canoe 120 meters high that looks towards the Atlantic Ocean, this is the project on which the poet and writer Amadou Lamine Sall, Secretary General of the Foundation is working. of the Gorée-Almadies memorial.
“
There will be a slavery museum, there will be a special library on works on slavery, there will be multipurpose rooms for arts, performances or crafts,” he
explains.
When the project is inaugurated, we will have in the first two or three years nearly 700 to 800,000
people per year who will come to visit it.
"
The work should begin between the end of next December and February 2022. This is the challenge for APIX, the agency responsible for major state works, in collaboration with the foundation of the memorial.
“
We worked a lot with the architect to put in place all the procedures and studies that we needed,”
explains Amadou Lamine Sall.
Geothermal studies were carried out, there were also environmental studies which were essential to build this project.
"
The inauguration by
President Macky Sall
could take place in the summer of 2023.
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