Bongani Ndlovu
Nyore Madzianike, Senior Reporter
BOTSWANA President Advocate Duma Boko has toured the Museum of African Liberation in Harare, where he conducted a ground-breaking ceremony on land donated by President Mnangagwa in honour of African countries that participated in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle.
President Boko also toured the building where the museum is under construction.
During the visit, he watered a plant dedicated to Botswana at the Museum of African Liberation.
Speaking after the ground-breaking ceremony, President Boko said:
“Well it’s a momentous occasion, it is a great mark and measure of Africa’s interconnectedness in history, in culture, in shared experiences.
“These shared experiences are often the stuff of legend or oral tradition transmitted from generation to generation by word of mouth.
“This project here avails an opportunity to chronicle, to document accurately and to preserve for posterity all the experiences that the African countries have gone through and the African continent in its entirety has endured over the years so that the story of the African history and experience shall remain echoing through the tunnels of time now and into the future
“This is an opportunity for Botswana to take its rightful place and tell part of that story and be an exemplar as well for now and for generations yet unborn and we take our place alongside other SADC countries here with pride and great pleasure.”
Earlier in the day, President Boko toured the National Heroes Acre where he laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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