MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS

Yo vini gade mwen la 
yele Zoklimo! Papa --yo vini gade'm pou yo pote'm ale!
​Translation: "They have come to look me over -- call Zoklimo! Father -- they have come to look me over to take me away!" From the traditional Haitian Vodou prayer, Priye Ginen/Priye Djo 

Gallery Pending

Mural detail commemorating the first uprising in the Americas, 1521 by 40+ Senegambians. Ingenio Boca de Nigua, Dominican Republic. Created by the descendant community.

Troepen Der Afrikaanse Veldtochten 1885-1960 detail of a solider, The memorial commemorates the colonisation of several African countries following the Scramble for Africa, Berlin Congo Conference, Bruxelles, Belgium

Atop the Slavernijmonument Rotterdam, four figures balance the, Clave. In the port city of Rotterdam, 60,000+ Africans from Central and West Africa, were deported between 1621-1863 to the Brazil and Surinam. Rotterdam, Amsterdam. Alex da Silva, artist

United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. UN Headquarters. Rodney Leon, architect

UNESCO World Heritage Site, Roi Behanzin du Danxome 1890-1908, Abomey, Benin Republic

In operation from 1502 - 1789 over 500, 000 Africans were herded through the entry gates of the Velekete Slave Market in the ancient City of Badagry, Nigeria

This iconic African architectural detail of La Petite Hollande, the 19th century home of a former trafficker of human flesh who profited from the slave trade is found in western France. Located in Ile de Nantes, the largest historic slave port in Europe outside of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Among the hundreds of thousands of granite stones, each representing every African head lost, exiled, wounded, and dead in an internecine war in the Kingdom of Danxome during the height of the Maafa. Place Ayidjosso, Benin Republic

SITES OF MEMORY & MNEMONIC PASSAGE

... you must spill
me into the crack
(ed) ground
i am blood
i am pebble
roots hairs
​and the dust of the thunder's boom...
​Kamau Brathwaite, lwa, 2005

Gallery pending

MUSEUMS & PUBLIC ART

... there is an inextricable connection between memory and the construction of individual identity or collective identity. Thus self-knowledge can never be complete without reference to one's roots, to the past that is one's history. 
​Mogobe Ramose, The Struggle for Reason in Africa, 1999

Gallery pending

Bronze lion head detail on the front doors of a former bank in Liverpool which financed the slave ships of Transatlantic Slave Trade in Captive Africans, and their crews. United Kingdom

The Phillipsburg Manor, this 18th century former slave plantation was the home of colonial elites. It hosts a permanent exhibition focused on the material culture and life of African descendants, in the historic Mid-Hudson Valley, New York, United States of America

A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby by Kara Walker. A temporary public art sculpture made of sugar granules. Installed at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

In Oostpark we encounter Edwin De Vries', Nationaal Slavernij Monument (detail), Amsterdam, Netherlands